Quantifying soil heterogeneity from solute dispersion experiments

Geoderma

Volumn 146, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 412-424

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

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Breakthrough curves; Longitudinal dispersivity; Multi region model; Permeability distribution; Soil heterogeneity; Solute dispersion

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVES; DATA-SETS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HETEROGENEOUS SOILS; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; LONGITUDINAL DISPERSIVITY; MISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; MULTI SCALING; MULTI-REGION MODEL; PERMEABILITY DISTRIBUTION; PORE SPACES; REGION MODEL; SOIL HETEROGENEITY; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; SOLUTE DISPERSION; UNDISTURBED SOILS;

SOILS;

DATA SET; DISPERSION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HETEROGENEITY; PERMEABILITY; PORE SPACE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 49549096433     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2008.06.014     Document Type: Article

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