Upscaling transport of adsorbing solutes in porous media: Pore-network modeling

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 624-636

  Raoof, Amir ^a   Majid Hassanizadeh, S ^a   Leijnse, Anton ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; ADSORPTION PARAMETERS; ATTACHMENT COEFFICIENT; AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; BREAK THROUGH CURVE; DETACHMENT COEFFICIENT; DISPERSION EQUATIONS; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; EQUILIBRIUM ADSORPTION; INTERCONNECTED PORES; LOCAL SCALE; MICRO-SCALES; MULTI-DIRECTIONAL; NETWORK MODELS; PORE NETWORKS; PORE SCALE; PORE THROAT; PORE-NETWORK MODELING; PORE-NETWORK MODELS; QUANTITATIVE RELATIONS; SCALE PARAMETER; SCALE-UP; TRANSPORT PARAMETERS; TWO STAGE; UPSCALING;

ADSORPTION; CURVE FITTING; POROUS MATERIALS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADSORPTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLOW VELOCITY; MICROSCOPY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; POTASSIUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPSCALING;

EID: 79960268792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2010.0026     Document Type: Article

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