Using dispersivity values to quantify the effects of pore-scale flow focusing on enhanced reaction along a transverse mixing zone

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 525-535

  Willingham, Thomas ^a   Zhang, Changyong ^b   Werth, Charles J ^a   Valocchi, Albert J ^a   Oostrom, Mart ^b   Wietsma, Thomas W ^b  

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Micromodel; Mixing; Preferential flow

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CONCENTRATION FIELDS; CONCENTRATION PROFILES; CONTINUUM MODEL; DISPERSIVITY; FINITE-VOLUME; FLOW CELLS; FLOW FOCUSING; HETEROGENEOUS FLOW; HIGH PERMEABILITY ZONE; LATTICE BOLTZMANN; MICROMODEL; MIXING ENHANCEMENT; OVERALL RATE; PORE SCALE; PREDICTIVE MODELING; REACTIVE SOLUTES; SCALE MODELS; TRANSVERSE DISPERSION; TRANSVERSE DISPERSIVITY; TRANSVERSE MIXING;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DISPERSIONS; GROUNDWATER; MIXING; PORE STRUCTURE;

FOCUSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DISPERSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW FIELD; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MIXING RATIO; PERMEABILITY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 77950516627     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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