Evaluating effective reaction rates of kinetically driven solutes in large-scale, statistically anisotropic media: Human health risk implications

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Siirila, Erica R ^a   Maxwell, Reed M ^a  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS; EQUILIBRIUM TRANSPORT; FIELD SCALE; GEOCHEMICAL REACTION; HETEROGENEOUS FLOW; HUMAN HEALTH RISKS; JOINT UNCERTAINTY AND VARIABILITIES; KINETIC REACTIONS; KINETIC SORPTION; LINEAR EQUILIBRIUM; LOCAL DISPERSION; MONTE CARLO SCHEMES; NONREACTIVE SOLUTES; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; REGIONAL GROUNDWATER; SMALL-SCALE PROCESS; SOLUTE RETARDATION; SOURCE TERMS; SUB-GRIDS; TIME-DEPENDENT; UPSCALING;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; AQUIFERS; DISPERSIONS; FLOW FIELDS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HEALTH RISKS; HYDROGEOLOGY; REACTION RATES; SORPTION;

KINETICS;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; AQUIFER; CANCER; HEALTH RISK; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; SOLUTE; SORPTION; STOCHASTICITY; VELOCITY;

EID: 84861382098     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011516     Document Type: Article

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