Inverse microbial and geochemical reactive transport models in porous media

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 33, Issue 14-16, 2008, Pages 1026-1034

  Yang, Changbing ^a   Samper, Javier ^a   Molinero, Jorge ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

CORE; Inverse model; Microbial processes; Numerical model; Reactive transport; REX experiment

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIODEGRADATION; CURVE FITTING; ERRORS; EXPERIMENTS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MODAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OXYGEN; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SORPTION;

CORE; INVERSE MODEL; MICROBIAL PROCESSES; NUMERICAL MODEL; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REX EXPERIMENT;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

BIODEGRADATION; DESORPTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOMICROBIOLOGY; INVERSE PROBLEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

EID: 54549087732     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2008.05.016     Document Type: Article

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