Pore-scale simulation of intragranular diffusion: Effects of incomplete mixing on macroscopic manifestations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 4277-4294

  Scheibe, Timothy D ^a   Hou, Zhangshuan ^a   Palmer, Bruce J ^a   Tartakovsky, Alexandre M ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

intragranular diffusion; mixing; multirate mass transfer; pore scale modeling

Indexed keywords

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MIXING; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

DIFFUSIVE MASS TRANSFER; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINANTS; MULTI-RATE MASS TRANSFERS; NON-FICKIAN BEHAVIOR; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PORE-SCALE MODEL; PORE-SCALE SIMULATION;

DIFFUSION;

DIFFUSION; FLUID FLOW; GRAIN SIZE; GRANULAR MEDIUM; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MASS TRANSFER; MIXING; PARAMETERIZATION; PORE SPACE; SIMULATION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 84880658805     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20333     Document Type: Article

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