A field-scale reactive transport model for U(VI) migration influenced by coupled multirate mass transfer and surface complexation reactions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Ma, R ^a   Zheng, C ^a   Prommer, H ^b,c   Greskowiak, J ^b   Liu, C ^d   Zachara, J ^d   Rockhold, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION/DESORPTION; BREAK THROUGH CURVE; DYNAMIC FLOW FIELD; FIELD DATA; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FIELD SCALE; GEOCHEMICAL CONDITIONS; GROUNDWATER COMPOSITION; GROUNDWATER INTERACTION; HANFORD; HYDROGEOCHEMICAL; MASS TRANSFER PROCESS; MODEL SIMULATION; MULTI RATE; PLUME MIGRATION; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELS; RIVER WATER; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS; STEADY STATE; SURFACE COMPLEXATION; TEMPORAL CHANGE; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; URANIUM ADSORPTION; URANIUM CONCENTRATION; WASHINGTON;

ADSORPTION; COMPLEXATION; FLOW FIELDS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MASS TRANSFER; MODELS; RIVERS; SURFACE REACTIONS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ADSORPTION; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPLEXATION; DESORPTION; FLOW FIELD; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PH; PLUME; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; URANIUM;

HANFORD; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

SUGARCANE RAMU STUNT DISEASE PHYTOPLASMA;

EID: 77952250919     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008168     Document Type: Article

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