Colloid deposition on non-ideal porous media: The influences of collector shape and roughness on the single-collector efficiency

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Saiers, James E ^a   Ryan, J N ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; COLLOIDS; DEPOSITION; FILTRATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

COLLOID DEPOSITION; COLLOID TRANSPORT; COLLOID-FILTRATION THEORY; NON-IDEAL POROUS MEDIA; SPHERICAL COLLECTORS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

COLLOID; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW;

EID: 29344441715     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024343     Document Type: Article

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