Evolution of groundwater contaminating plume originating from tar waste - Current conditions and remedial strategies

Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-18

  Radulescu, Monica ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PETROSANI   (Romania)

Author keywords

Contaminants; Groundwater; Hydrogeology; Hydrostratigraphy; Numerical modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLUME; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TAR;

CANADA; MANITOBA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 65749083475     PISSN: 18424090     EISSN: 1844489X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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