A multi-compartment mass transfer model applied to building vapor intrusion

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 37, 2011, Pages 6650-6657

  Murphy, Brian L ^a   Chan, Wanyu R ^b  

^a EXPONENT INC   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection; Air flow; Diffusion; Groundwater contamination; Johnson and Ettinger model; Transport

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; DIFFUSIVE FLUX; EASE OF USE; ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT; ENVIRONMENTAL COMPARTMENT; GENERAL APPROACH; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; JOHNSON AND ETTINGER MODEL; LIMITING CASE; MASS TRANSFER MODELS; MULTI-MEDIA; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHASE CHANGE; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; SATURATED ZONE; SIMPLE RULES; TRANSPORT; VAPOR INTRUSION; VAPOR INTRUSION MODELS; VARIABLE RESISTORS; WATER TABLE FLUCTUATIONS; WATER TABLES;

ADVECTION; CIRCUIT THEORY; DIFFUSION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; POTENTIOMETERS (RESISTORS); RESISTORS; VOLTAGE DIVIDERS;

WATER VAPOR;

GROUND WATER; TAR; WATER;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; AIRFLOW; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MASS TRANSFER; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SOIL POLLUTION; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; VAPOR PRESSURE; WATER TABLE;

AIR; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC DIFFUSION; COMPARTMENT MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; MASS TRANSFER; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; VAPOR; WATER TABLE;

EID: 80053905146     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.09.009     Document Type: Article

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