Investigating the impact of advective and diffusive controls in solute transport on geoelectrical data

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 10-19

  Wheaton, Daniel D ^a   Singha, Kamini ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

COMSOL; Dual domain mass transfer; Electrical resistivity; Solute transport

Indexed keywords

APPARENT ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; CO-LOCATED; COMSOL; COUPLED FLOW; CROSS-SECTIONAL MODELS; DIFFUSION LENGTH; DUAL-DOMAIN MASS TRANSFER; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTRICAL SIGNATURES; FINITE-ELEMENT CODES; FLUID CONDUCTIVITY; GEOELECTRICAL; GEOPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYSTERESIS BEHAVIOR; HYSTERESIS CURVE; LENGTH SCALE; MACROSCOPIC HETEROGENEITY; MASS TRANSFER PROCESS; MASS TRANSFER RATE; MOBILE DOMAINS; MULTI-PHYSICS; NUMERICAL MODELS; SEQUENTIAL GAUSSIAN SIMULATION; SMALL-SCALE HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRANSPORT BEHAVIOR;

AQUIFERS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUIDS; GEOPHYSICS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYSTERESIS; MASS TRANSFER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

DATA TRANSFER RATES;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOELECTRIC FIELD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 77955983810     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2010.06.006     Document Type: Article

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