Two-dimensional numerical simulation of groundwater contamination in the highway environment

International Journal of Pavement Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 265-276

  Dawson, Andrew ^a   Boothroyd, Philip ^a   Jie, Ma ^b   Liming, Hu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Shandong Provincial Traffic Planning and Design Institute   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contaminants; Modelling; Partitioning; Sub grade; Sub surface drainage

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINANTS; MODELLING; PARTITIONING; SUB-GRADE; SUB-SURFACE DRAINAGE;

AQUIFERS; CAPILLARITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; DRAINAGE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; LEACHING; PAVEMENTS; RAIN; SOLVENTS; SORPTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WATER CONTENT; WATER WELLS;

CONTAMINATION;

EID: 68849118380     PISSN: 10298436     EISSN: 1477268X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10298430802069475     Document Type: Article

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