A multi-flowpath model for the interpretation of immiscible displacement experiments in heterogeneous soil columns

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 105, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 146-160

  Aggelopoulos, C A ^a,b   Tsakiroglou, C D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; Electrical resistivity; Heterogeneous soil; Inverse modeling; Preferential flow; Relative permeability

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; HETEROGENEOUS SOIL; INVERSE MODELING; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY;

CAPILLARY TUBES; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FLOW OF WATER; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MERCURY (METAL); SOILS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

CAPILLARITY;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FLOW MODELING; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMMISCIBILITY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; PERMEABILITY; PHREATIC ZONE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; PRESSURE DROP; SOIL COLUMN; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TWO PHASE FLOW;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MERCURY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POROSITY; SOIL; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 61649113154     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2008.12.004     Document Type: Article

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