The influence of wettability on NAPL dissolution fingering

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1687-1696

  Seyedabbasi, Mir Ahmad ^a   Farthing, Matthew W ^b   Imhoff, Paul T ^a   Miller, Cass T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Mass transfer; Nonaqueous phase liquids; Preferential flow; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPURITIES; MASS TRANSFER; POROUS MATERIALS;

DERIVED EXPRESSIONS; FUTURE WORKS; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; HOMOGENEOUS POROUS MEDIAS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MASS TRANSFER RATES; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OVERALL RATES; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; POROUS MEDIUMS; PREFERENTIAL DISSOLUTIONS; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; REMOVAL RATES; TEST CASES; TRAVEL DISTANCES; UPSCALING; WET CONDITIONS; WET MEDIAS;

DISSOLUTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSOLUTION; MASS TRANSFER; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; POROUS MEDIUM; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; UPSCALING; WETTABILITY;

EID: 55649088916     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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