Effects of kinetic mass transfer and transient flow conditions on widening mixing zones in coastal aquifers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Lu, Chunhui ^a   Kitanidis, Peter K ^b   Luo, Jian ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL AQUIFERS; COASTAL SEAWATER; FIELD MODEL; FIELD SCALE; FLOW REGIMES; GROUNDWATER MODELS; IMMOBILE DOMAINS; MASS TRANSFER RATE; MEAN RETENTION TIME; MIXING ZONES; TANK MODELS; TIDAL MOTION; TRANSIENT CONDITIONS; TRANSIENT FLOW CONDITIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATION; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER-LEVEL FLUCTUATION; FIELD-SCALE MODELING; GROUNDWATER MODELING;

AQUIFERS; COASTAL ZONES; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; MASS TRANSFER; SEAWATER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SETTLING TANKS; SIMULATORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WATER LEVELS; KINETICS;

MIXING;

COASTAL AQUIFER; ESTUARINE FRONT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSIENT FLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER LEVEL;

EID: 72049133591     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007643     Document Type: Article

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