Application of continuous time random walk theory to nonequilibrium transport in soil

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 108, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 134-151

  Li, Na ^a   Ren, Li ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Breakthrough curve (BTC); Continuous time random walk (CTRW); Nonequilibrium transport; Numerical experiment; Prediction model; Sorbing solute

Indexed keywords

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE (BTC); CONTINUOUS TIME RANDOM WALK (CTRW); NONEQUILIBRIUM TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENT; PREDICTION MODEL; SORBING SOLUTE;

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; CURVE FITTING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SET THEORY; SOILS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SORPTION; WATER;

EXPERIMENTS;

PESTICIDE;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; DATA SET; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; POREWATER; RANDOM WALK METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STEADY FLOW;

ARTICLE; CURVE FITTING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOLUTE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOIL; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 69349099081     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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