Relative importance of geostatistical and transport models in describing heavily tailed breakthrough curves at the Lauswiesen site

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 101, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 1-13

  Riva, Monica ^a   Guadagnini, Alberto ^a   Fernandez Garcia, Daniel ^b   Sanchez Vila, Xavier ^b   Ptak, Thomas ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breakthrough curves; Heterogeneity; Hydraulic parameters; Spatial cross correlation; Three dimensional model; Tracer test

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); SITE SELECTION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBULENT FLOW;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVES; COMPOSITE MEDIUM; CONCEPTUAL MODELLING; DOUBLY STOCHASTIC; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; GEO-MATERIALS; GEOSTATISTICAL; GEOSTATISTICAL MODELLING; GERMANY; HETEROGENEITY; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; MONTE CARLO; PUMPING WELLS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SALIENT FEATURES; SLOW RELEASES; SPATIAL CROSS-CORRELATION; STATISTICAL DESCRIPTIONS; STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITIES; TEMPORAL MOMENTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; TRACER TEST; TRACER TESTING; TRANSPORT MODELLING; TRANSPORT PROCESSES;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; GEOSTATISTICS; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MASS TRANSFER; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRACER;

ADVECTION; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; DISPERSION; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; GERMANY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SOLUTE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; WATER TRANSPORT;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; KINETICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 52949121016     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2008.07.004     Document Type: Article

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