Migration of contaminant below the municipal solid waste landfills in variably saturated soils

12th International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics 2008

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 2327-2333

  Sudheer, Ch ^a   Mathur, S ^a   Jain, S K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Landfill liners; Llandfills; Richard's equation; Variable saturated flow

Indexed keywords

CLAY LINERS; COMPACTED CLAY LINER; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TECHNIQUES; GROUNDWATER SYSTEM; LANDFILL LINER; LEACHATES; LINER MATERIAL; LLANDFILLS; MINIMUM THICKNESS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS; OPTIMUM THICKNESS; RICHARD'S EQUATION; SATURATED FLOW; VARIABLY SATURATED; WASTE FACILITIES;

CLAY DEPOSITS; GEOMECHANICS; GROUNDWATER; IMPURITIES; LEACHATE TREATMENT;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

EID: 84869743384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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