Modeling colloid transport and retention in saturated porous media under unfavorable attachment conditions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Bradford, Scott A ^a   Torkzaban, Saeed ^b   Simunek, Jiri ^b  

^a U S SALINITY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS PHASE; COLLOID SIZE; COLLOID TRANSPORT; FILTRATION THEORY; GRAIN SIZE; HYPEREXPONENTIAL; INTERACTION ENERGIES; MODEL FORMULATION; MODEL PARAMETERS; NONMONOTONIC; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; PORE SCALE; RETENTION PROFILE; SATURATED POROUS MEDIA; SOLID SURFACE; SOLID-PHASE; THEORY DEVELOPMENT; TIME DEPENDENT; WATER FLOW SIMULATION;

COLLOID CHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS;

COLLOIDS;

AGGREGATION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; COLLOID; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEPOSITION; FILTRATION; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATED MEDIUM; WATER FLOW;

EID: 80054046748     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010812     Document Type: Article

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