Finiteness of steady state plumes

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1-8

  Liedl, Rudolf ^a   Valocchi, Albert J ^b   Dietrich, Peter ^a,c   Grathwohl, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; AQUIFERS; CONTAMINATION; ELECTRONS; IMPURITIES; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REACTION KINETICS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AQUIFER THICKNESS; DEGRADATION MODELS; FIRST-ORDER DEGRADATION MODELS; STEADY STATE PLUME LENGTH;

WATER POLLUTION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; AQUIFERS; CONTAMINATION; ELECTRONS; IMPURITIES; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REACTION KINETICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; AQUIFER POLLUTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

EID: 31544463823     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004000     Document Type: Article

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