Constraining denitrification in permeable wave-influenced marine sediment using linked hydrodynamic and biogeochemical modeling

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 127-137

  Cardenas, M Bayani ^a   Cook, Perran L M ^b   Jiang, Houshuo ^c   Traykovski, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

computational fluid dynamics; denitrification; oscillatory ripples; permeable sediment; pore water; reactive transport

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; OSCILLATORY RIPPLES; PERMEABLE SEDIMENT; PORE WATER; REACTIVE TRANSPORT;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CAPILLARITY; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUIDS; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; POROUS MATERIALS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; WATER;

DENITRIFICATION;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DENITRIFICATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MARINE SEDIMENT; NITRIFICATION; PERMEABILITY; POREWATER; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TURBULENT FLOW; WATER COLUMN;

EID: 53249117067     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.08.016     Document Type: Article

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