Key features of artificial aquifers for use in modeling contaminant transport

Ground Water

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 814-828

  Close, Murray ^a   Bright, John ^b,c   Wang, Fuli ^b   Pang, Liping ^a   Manning, Maitland ^a,d  

^a ESR Christchurch Science Centre   (New Zealand)

^b LINCOLN AGRITECH LTD   (New Zealand)

^c AQUALINC RESEARCH LTD   (New Zealand)

^d THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1D MODELS; 3D MODELS; ANALYTICAL MODELS; AQUIFER MEDIAS; AQUIFER PARAMETERS; AQUIFER PROPERTIES; AREA RATIOS; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORTS; DISPERSIVITY; EXCESS AIRS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; HETEROGENEOUS; HETEROGENEOUS AQUIFERS; KEY FEATURES; LARGE-SCALE; LONGITUDINAL DISPERSIVITY; MEAN-VALUE; MODELING; SAND MEDIAS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TRACER BREAKTHROUGH CURVES; TRACER INJECTIONS; WATER SOURCES;

AQUIFERS; CONTAMINATION; CURVE FITTING; DEGASSING; ELASTIC MODULI; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SORPTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

RHODAMINE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; DISPERSIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SAND; SORPTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRACER;

ADSORPTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOW KINETICS; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PARTICLE SIZE; RHODAMINE WT; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

ADSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; RHEOLOGY; RHODAMINES; SILICON DIOXIDE; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 54849409908     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2008.00474.x     Document Type: Article

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