Mass transfer correlations for nonaqueous phase liquid dissolution from regions with high initial saturations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Nambi, Indumathi M ^a,b   Powers, Susan E ^a  

^a Wallace H Coulter School of Engineering   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissolution; Heterogeneous media; Mass transfer correlation; NAPL; Sherwood number

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DISSOLUTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HYDRAULIC MODELS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE INTERFACES; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS (NAPL);

MASS TRANSFER;

GROUNDWATER; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; NON-AQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; MASS TRANSFER; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

EID: 17944402192     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001WR000667     Document Type: Article

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