Solute dilution under imbibition and drainage conditions in a heterogeneous structure: Modeling of a sand tank experiment

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1242-1252

  Rossi, M ^a   Ippisch, O ^b   Fluhler H ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dilution; Heterogeneity; Modeling; Solute transport

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISPERSIONS; DRAINAGE; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

BOUNDARY CONDITIONING; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; COMBINED EFFECTS; CONSERVATIVE TRACERS; CONVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATION; DIGITAL IMAGING; DILUTION; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS; HETEROGENEITY; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HETEROGENEOUS STRUCTURES; HOMOGENEOUS LAYERING; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; LOW FLOWS; MODELING; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PREFERENTIAL PATHWAYS; QUARTZ SANDS; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; RICHARDS EQUATION; SAND LAYERS; SAND TANK; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; STATIONARY FLOW; STEADY-STATE FLOWS; STRUCTURE RECOGNITION; TRANSPORT EXPERIMENTS; TWO DIMENSIONS; UPPER SURFACE; WATER SATURATIONS;

SAND;

DILUTION; DRAINAGE; FLOW FIELD; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; TRACER;

EID: 50149084449     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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