Modeling variably saturated water flow and multicomponent reactive transport in constructed wetlands

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 924-938

  Langergraber, Günter ^a   Šimůnek, Jirka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC GROWTH; AUTOTROPHIC BACTERIA; BIO-CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; BIOCHEMICAL COMPONENTS; BIOCHEMICAL DEGRADATION; BIOCHEMICAL TRANSFORMATION; COMPLEX MIXTURE; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; DEGRADATION PROCESS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; DINITROGEN; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; HETEROTROPHIC BACTERIAS; HYDRUS-2D; MODEL SIMULATION; MULTICOMPONENTS; N-COMPOUNDS; OPTIMAL CONDITIONS; RATE EXPRESSION; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELS; RUNOFF WATER; SUBSURFACE-FLOW; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TRACER TRANSPORT; TRANSFORMATION PROCESS; TWO STAGE; TWO-STEP PROCESS; VARIABLY SATURATED; VARIABLY SATURATED FLOW; VERTICAL FLOWS; WATER FLOWS;

AEROBIC BACTERIA; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIODEGRADATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGRADATION; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULICS; MICROORGANISMS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRACE ELEMENTS; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WETLANDS;

WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 33751333365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2004.0166     Document Type: Article

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