Application of a mixing-ratios based formulation to model mixing-driven dissolution experiments

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 756-766

  Guadagnini, Alberto ^a   Sanchez Vila, Xavier ^b   Saaltink, Maarten W ^b   Bussini, Michele ^a   Berkowitz, Brian ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Diffusion and mixing; Laboratory experiments; Multicomponent reactive transport

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SYSTEMS; ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS; CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUMS; CHEMICAL SPECIES; COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENTS; CONTROLLED CONDITIONS; DISPERSIVITY; FLOW CELLS; HETEROGENEOUS REACTIONS; INTEGRATED REACTIONS; INTEGRATED VALUES; KEY POINTS; KEY PROCESS; LABORATORY ANALYSIS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MIXING RATIOS; MODEL MIXING; MULTICOMPONENT REACTIVE TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODELING APPROACHES; POROUS MEDIAS; REACTIVE TRANSPORT CODES; REACTIVE TRANSPORT PROBLEMS; SALIENT FEATURES; SPACE-TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STATE VARIABLES;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LABORATORIES; MIXING; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PINCH EFFECT; POROUS MATERIALS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

REACTION RATES;

DIFFUSION; DISSOLUTION; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; REACTION RATE; REACTIVE TRANSPORT;

EID: 67349248108     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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