Modeling bimolecular reactions and transport in porous media via particle tracking

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 53, Issue , 2013, Pages 56-65

  Ding, Dong ^a   Benson, David A ^a   Paster, Amir ^b   Bolster, Diogo ^b  

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

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical reactions; Lagrangian particle method

Indexed keywords

AUTOCOVARIANCES; BIMOLECULAR REACTION; CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTIONS; CONCENTRATION STATISTICS; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; DEGREE OF MIXING; EMPIRICAL PARAMETERS; GLASS BEAD; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE METHOD; LARGE PARTS; MIXING ZONES; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; NUMERICAL SCHEME; PARTICLE MODEL; PARTICLE TRACKING; PARTICLE-TRACKING METHOD; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; PRODUCT CONCENTRATION; RATE COEFFICIENTS; REACTIVE TRANSPORT EXPERIMENTS; SHORT TIME INTERVALS; TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA;

ADVECTION; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DISPERSIONS; HALIDE MINERALS; KETONES; MIXING; POROUS MATERIALS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ADVECTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISPERSION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MIXING; OUTFLOW; POROUS MEDIUM; PROBABILITY; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84870693193     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.11.001     Document Type: Article

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