Advective and diffusive contributions to reactive gas transport during pyrite oxidation in the unsaturated zone

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Binning, P J ^a   Postma, D ^a   Russell, T F ^b   Wesselingh, J A ^c   Boulin, P F ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OXIDATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

ADVECTIVE AIR FLOW; MAXWELL-STEFAN MODEL; REACTIVE GAS TRANSPORT;

MASS TRANSFER;

DIFFUSION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OXIDATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; AIRFLOW; DIFFUSION; GAS TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; OXIDATION; PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PYRITE; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; VADOSE ZONE;

EID: 33947663131     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004474     Document Type: Article

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