Scaling of geochemical reaction rates via advective solute transport

Chaos

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Hunt, A G ^a   Ghanbarian, B ^b   Skinner, T E ^a   Ewing, R P ^c  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOIL; SOLVENT; WATER;

ABSORPTION; ADSORPTION; ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; POROSITY; SEDIMENT; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ABSORPTION, PHYSICOCHEMICAL; ADSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POROSITY; SOIL; SOLVENTS; WATER;

EID: 84925353361     PISSN: 10541500     EISSN: 10897682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4913257     Document Type: Article

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