Contaminant transport in groundwater in the presence of colloids and bacteria: Model development and verification

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 108, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 152-167

  Bekhit, Hesham M ^a   El Kordy, Mohamed A ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a,b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria associated transport; Colloid associated transport; Groundwater contaminant transport; Subsurface transport modeling

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; COMBINED SYSTEM; COMPLEX-COUPLING; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CONTAMINANT MIGRATION; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; CONVERGENCE CRITERION; COUPLED PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GROUNDWATER AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; GROUNDWATER SYSTEM; LINEAR KINETICS; MASS BALANCE; MASS BALANCE EQUATIONS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIO-CHEMICAL; POROUS MEDIUM; REACTION PROCESS; REACTIVE PROCESS; SUBSURFACE TRANSPORT MODELING; THIRD-ORDER; TIME STEP; TOTAL VARIANCE; TRANSPORT MECHANISM; TWO-DIMENSIONAL;

AQUIFERS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; COLLOID CHEMISTRY; CONTAMINATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; REACTION KINETICS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

GROUND WATER;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; BACTERIUM; COLLOID; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MASS BALANCE; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; REACTION KINETICS;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COLLOID; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA; COLLOIDS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 69649089854     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2009.07.003     Document Type: Article

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