Application of a lumped-process mathematical model to dissolution of non-uniformly distributed immiscible liquid in heterogeneous porous media

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 1-10

  Marble, J C ^a   DiFilippo, E L ^a   Zhang, Z ^a   Tick, G R ^b   Brusseau, M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissolution; DNAPL; Modeling

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CAPILLARITY; EFFLUENTS; FUNCTIONS; LIQUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; POROUS MATERIALS; PROCESS MONITORING; SOLIDS;

AQUEOUS SOLUBILITY; COMPLETE DISSOLUTION; DISSOLUTION RATE (DR); EFFLUENT CONCENTRATIONS; FLOW EFFECTS; FLOWING WATERS; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIUM; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM; LIQUID ZONES; MEASURED DATA; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; ORDERS-OF-MAGNITUDE; PACKED COLUMNS; PARAMETER VALUES; POROUS-MEDIA; PROCESS MODELLING; RESIDUAL SATURATION; SCALE FACTOR (SF); UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED;

DISSOLUTION;

DISSOLUTION; HETEROGENEITY; IMMISCIBILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER FLOW;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; DISSOLUTION; EFFLUENT; LIQUID CULTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MISCIBILITY; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOLUBILITY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER FLOW;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; POROSITY; SOLUBILITY; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

PASSIFLORA;

EID: 48549100660     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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