Pore-scale numerical and experimental investigation of colloid retention at the secondary energy minimum

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Qiu, Charmaine Q ^a   Han, Jie ^a   Gao, Hui ^a   Wang, Lian Ping ^a   Jin, Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOID RETENTION; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; CRITICAL FLOW; ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLOW SPEED; FLOWTHROUGH; GRAIN PACKINGS; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCES; HYDRODYNAMIC TRANSPORT; INTERSTITIAL FLOW; ON FLOW; POROUS CHANNEL; REPULSIVE ENERGY; RETENTION RATIO; SECONDARY ENERGY MINIMA; SURFACE COVERAGES; TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COLLOIDS; HYDRODYNAMICS; IONIC STRENGTH; POROUS MATERIALS; SPEED; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

COLLOID CHEMISTRY;

BROWNIAN MOTION; COLLOID; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDRODYNAMICS; IONIC COMPOSITION; MICROSCOPY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; RETENTION; SATURATION; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 84863230089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2011.0071     Document Type: Article

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