Connecting the molecular scale to the continuum scale for diffusion processes in smectite-rich porous media

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2085-2091

  Bourg, Ian C ^a   Sposito, Garrison ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; BULK LIQUID; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; DIFFUSION PROCESS; DIFFUSIVE PROPERTIES; MACRO PORES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR SCALE; POROUS MEDIA; SCALE PARAMETER; SIMPLE EXPRESSION; SMECTITES; WATER TRACERS;

BLOOD VESSELS; CESIUM; CLAY MINERALS; COMPOSITE FILMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POROUS MATERIALS; POSITIVE IONS; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

NANOPORES;

CATION; CESIUM; SILICON DIOXIDE; SODIUM; STRONTIUM; WATER;

CATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DIFFUSION; FLUID MECHANICS; POROUS MEDIUM; SMECTITE; SODIUM; TRACER;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; LIQUID; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SIMULATION;

CESIUM; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NANOPORES; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; SILICATES; SODIUM; STRONTIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 77949377997     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es903645a     Document Type: Article

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