APPARENT DISPERSIVITY OF PHYSICALLY-CHEMICALLY HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA

Colloid interaction energies for physically and chemically heterogeneous porous media.

The mean and variance of the colloid interaction energy (Φ*) as a function of separation distance (h) were calculated on physically and/or chemically heterogeneous solid surfaces at the representative elementary area (REA) scale. Nanoscale roughness was demonstrated to have a significant influence on the colloid interaction energy for different ionic strengths. Increasing the roughness height r...

The Migration and Entrapment of DNAPLs in Physically and Chemically Heterogeneous Porous Media

Virus transport in physically and geochemically heterogeneous subsurface porous media.

A two-dimensional model for virus transport in physically and geochemically heterogeneous subsurface porous media is presented. The model involves solution of the advection-dispersion equation, which additionally considers virus inactivation in the solution, as well as virus removal at the solid matrix surface due to attachment (deposition), release, and inactivation. Two surface inactivation m...

New Approach for Approximation of Dispersivity in Porous Media

This paper presents a simple yet powerful original approach for approximating dispersivity in porous media. The key to this approach is both use of least-squares criterion and image processing technique. Two dimensional transparent models, including horizontal and vertical configurations, under different combinations of grain sizes and pore velocities, experimented. Concentration data were obta...

Colloid adhesive parameters for chemically heterogeneous porous media.

A simple modeling approach was developed to calculate colloid adhesive parameters for chemically heterogeneous porous media. The area of the zone of electrostatic influence between a colloid and solid-water interface (A(z)) was discretized into a number of equally sized grid cells to capture chemical heterogeneity within this region. These cells were divided into fractions having specific zeta ...