Comparison of steady-state and transient flow conditions on reactive transport of contaminants in the vadose soil zone

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 369, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 225-233

  Kuntz, David ^a   Grathwohl, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Damk hler; Deterministic modeling; Groundwater risk assessment; Kinetic sorption; Transient flow; Vadose zone

Indexed keywords

ADVECTIVE TRANSPORTS; COMPOUND PROPERTIES; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORTS; DEGRADATION KINETICS; DETERMINISTIC MODELING; FINITE SOURCES; GROUND WATER TABLES; KINETIC SORPTION; MASS FLUXES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONS; REACTIVE TRANSPORTS; REDUCED BIODEGRADATIONS; RESIDENCE TIME; SEEPAGE WATERS; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; SORPTION KINETICS; SOURCE TYPES; STEADY-STATE FLOW CONDITIONS; STEADY-STATE FLOWS; STEADY-STATE SIMULATIONS; TOTAL MASS; TRANSIENT CONDITIONS; TRANSIENT FLOW; TRANSIENT FLOW CONDITIONS; TRANSIENT SEEPAGES; TRANSIENT SIMULATIONS; UNSATURATED ZONES; VADOSE ZONE;

ANTHRACENE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIODEGRADATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CYCLOHEXANE; DEGRADATION; DESORPTION; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; IMPURITIES; INSECTICIDES; MICROBIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SEEPAGE; SOILS; TRANSITION FLOW; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; UNSATURATED COMPOUNDS; WATER TREATMENT;

LEAD;

ADVECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; KINETICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SORPTION; TRANSIENT FLOW; VADOSE ZONE; WATER FLOW; WATER TABLE;

EID: 65249097755     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.02.006     Document Type: Article

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