The longitudinal dispersion coefficient of soils as related to the variability of local permeability

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 185, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 223-237

  Aggelopoulos, C A ^a,b   Tsakiroglou, C D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dispersion coefficient; Dispersion front; Heterogeneity; Inverse modeling; Miscible displacement; Numerical simulation; Solute transport

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FLOW VELOCITY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

DISPERSION FRONT; LONGITUDINAL DISPERSION; MISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; SOIL COLUMN;

SOILS;

GROUND WATER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FLOW VELOCITY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; SOILS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; DISPERSION; FLOW VELOCITY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOIL COLUMN; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FLOW RATE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; PERMEABILITY; SPATIAL SOIL VARIABILITY; VELOCITY;

EID: 34648831971     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-007-9445-6     Document Type: Article

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