A reactive transport modeling approach to simulate biogeochemical processes in pore structures with pore-scale heterogeneities

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 30, Issue , 2012, Pages 102-114

  Gharasoo, Mehdi ^a   Centler, Florian ^a   Regnier, Pierre ^b   Harms, Hauke ^a   Thullner, Martin ^a,c  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bioavailability; Biodegradation; Pore networks; Pore scale heterogeneity; Reactive transport models; Spatial distributions

Indexed keywords

ADVECTIVE-DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIODEGRADATION KINETICS; BIODEGRADATION PROCESS; BIODEGRADATION RATE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL SPECIES; COMPUTATIONAL CAPACITY; COUPLED MODELS; DEGRADATION CAPACITY; DIFFUSION LIMITED; DISCRETE SETS; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; PORE NETWORKS; PORE-NETWORK MODELS; PORE-SCALE HETEROGENEITY; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELS; REDOX PROCESS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY; TEST CASE;

AQUIFERS; BIODEGRADATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; IMPURITIES; MICROORGANISMS; MODELS; PORE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS; REACTION RATES; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL TESTING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

DEGRADATION;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; AQUIFER; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOSTATISTICS; HETEROGENEITY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROORGANISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; POROUS MEDIUM; REACTION KINETICS; REDOX POTENTIAL; RESOLUTION; SOIL TYPE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84855186439     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.10.010     Document Type: Article

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