Solute transport in solution conduits exhibiting multi-peaked breakthrough curves

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 440-441, Issue , 2012, Pages 26-35

  Field, Malcolm S ^a   Leij, Feike J ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual advection dispersion equation; Multi peaked breakthrough curves; Solution conduits

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATION; AUXILIARY CHANNEL; BREAK THROUGH CURVE; COMBINED MODEL; DISPERSION EQUATIONS; FIRST-ORDER; FLOW OBSTRUCTION; KARST AQUIFER; MULTIPLE-PEAK; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; TRACER TESTS;

ADVECTION; AQUIFERS; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROGEOLOGY; LAKES; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

DISPERSIONS;

ADVECTION; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; CHANNEL FLOW; DISPERSION; KARST HYDROLOGY; MASS TRANSFER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WATERFALL;

EID: 84860318089     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.03.018     Document Type: Article

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