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Reactive solute transport in physically and chemically heterogeneous porous media with multimodal reactive mineral facies: The Lagrangian approach
Chemosphere
  • Mohamad Reza Soltanian, Wright State University
  • Robert W. Ritzi, Wright State University
  • Zhenxue Dai
  • Chao Cheng Huang, Wright State University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2015
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SCOPUS_ID:84920533023
Abstract

Physical and chemical heterogeneities have a large impact on reactive transport in porous media. Examples of heterogeneous attributes affecting reactive mass transport are the hydraulic conductivity (. K), and the equilibrium sorption distribution coefficient (. Kd). This paper uses the Deng et al. (2013) conceptual model for multimodal reactive mineral facies and a Lagrangian-based stochastic theory in order to analyze the reactive solute dispersion in three-dimensional anisotropic heterogeneous porous media with hierarchical organization of reactive minerals. An example based on real field data is used to illustrate the time evolution trends of reactive solute dispersion. The results show that the correlation between the hydraulic conductivity and the equilibrium sorption distribution coefficient does have a significant effect on reactive solute dispersion. The anisotropy ratio does not have a significant effect on reactive solute dispersion. Furthermore, through a sensitivity analysis we investigate the impact of changing the mean, variance, and integral scale of K and Kd on reactive solute dispersion.

DOI
10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.11.064
Citation Information
Mohamad Reza Soltanian, Robert W. Ritzi, Zhenxue Dai and Chao Cheng Huang. "Reactive solute transport in physically and chemically heterogeneous porous media with multimodal reactive mineral facies: The Lagrangian approach" Chemosphere Vol. 122 (2015) p. 235 - 244 ISSN: 00456535
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/robert_ritzi/51/