Colloid-Facilitated Solute Transport in Variably Saturated Porous Media: Numerical Model and Experimental Verification

Colloid-Facilitated Solute Transport in Variably Saturated Porous Media: Numerical Model and Experimental Verification

Strongly sorbing chemicals (e.g., heavy metals, radionuclides, pharmaceuticals, and explosives) in porous media are associated predominantly with the solid phase, which is commonly assumed to be stationary. However, recent fieldand laboratory-scale observations have shown that in the presence of mobile colloidal particles (e.g., microbes, humic substances, clays, and metal oxides), colloids can...

Convergent mass conservative schemes for flow and reactive solute transport in variably saturated porous media

Three-dimensional analysis of variably-saturated flow and solute transport in discretely-fractured porous media

A discrete fracture, saturated-unsaturated numerical model is developed where the porous matrix is represented in three dimensions and fractures are represented by two-dimensional planes. This allows a fully three-dimensional description of the fracture network connectivity. Solute advection and diffusion in the porous matrix are also directly accounted for. The variably-saturated flow equation...

Modelling microscale flow and colloid transport in saturated porous media

International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713455064 Modelling microscale flow and colloid transport in saturated porous media Hui Gao a; Jie Han b; Yan Jin b; Lian-Ping Wang a a Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE,...

Solute transport during cyclic flow in saturated porous media

We consider materials with large pores interconnected by thin long channels saturated with an incompressible fluid. In the absence of fluid flow, solute transport in the porous network is diffusion controlled, however, solute transport can be enhanced when the porous network is subjected to a cyclic flow with zero time average velocity. We develop a mathematical model to analyze this physical p...