Generation of dense plume fingers in saturated-unsaturated homogeneous porous media

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 173, Issue , 2015, Pages 69-82

  Cremer, Clemens J M ^a   Graf, Thomas ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Density; Fingering; Groundwater; Model; Numerical trigger; Saturated; Unsaturated

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; GROUNDWATER; MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; SALT WATER INTRUSION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

CONCENTRATION VARIATION; FINGERING; HOMOGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MATERIAL HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL TRIGGER; SATURATED; UNSATURATED;

PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

GROUND WATER; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; WATER POLLUTANT;

DENSITY; FINGERING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLUME; POROUS MEDIUM; UNSATURATED FLOW;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HYDROLOGY; PHYSICAL MODEL; PLUME FINGER; TANK; WATER FLOW; CHEMISTRY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POROSITY; RELATIVE DENSITY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTANT;

GROUNDWATER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA; POROSITY; SOLUTIONS; SPECIFIC GRAVITY; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84920141644     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: 18736009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2014.11.008     Document Type: Article

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