Experimental Investigation and Pore-Scale Modeling Interpretation of Compound-Specific Transverse Dispersion in Porous Media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 347-362

  Rolle, Massimo ^a   Hochstetler, David ^b   Chiogna, Gabriele ^a   Kitanidis, Peter K ^b   Grathwohl, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dilution index; Incomplete mixing; Multitracer experiments; Pore scale modeling; Transverse dispersion

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VELOCITY; CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS; DIFFUSIVE MASS TRANSFER; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLOW-THROUGH SYSTEMS; GRAIN SIZE; HIGH FLOW VELOCITY; HYDRODYNAMIC DISPERSIONS; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; LOCAL HYDRODYNAMICS; MACROSCOPIC BEHAVIORS; MICROSCOPIC LEVELS; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; MULTI-TRACER EXPERIMENTS; MULTITRACER; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PORE CHANNELS; PORE THROAT; PORE-SCALE MODELING; PORE-SCALE SIMULATION; SATURATED POROUS MEDIA; SEEPAGE VELOCITY; TRANSPORT PROCESS; TRANSVERSE DISPERSION; TRANSVERSE MIXING;

EXPERIMENTS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MIXING; PARAMETERIZATION; POROUS MATERIALS;

DISPERSIONS;

CHANNEL FLOW; DARCY LAW; DIFFUSIVITY; DISPERSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW VELOCITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; LABORATORY METHOD; MASS TRANSFER; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 84862153207     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-012-9953-8     Document Type: Article

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