Subsurface contaminant transport in the presence of colloids: Effect of nonlinear and nonequilibrium interactions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Bekhit, Hesham M ^a,b   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a,b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPURITIES; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SORPTION; SUBIRRIGATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

COLLOID DEPOSITION; IMMOBILE COLLOIDS; SORPTION ISOTHERMS;

COLLOIDS;

COLLOIDS; IMPURITIES; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SORPTION; SUBIRRIGATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

COLLOID; ISOTHERM; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SORPTION; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 34848834816     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005418     Document Type: Article

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