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Main Title Mathematical Model for the Transport and Fate of Organic Chemicals in Unsaturated/Saturated Soils.
Author Lindstrom, F. T. ; Piver, W. T. ;
CORP Author Oregon State Univ., Corvallis. ;National Inst. of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC.;Corvallis Environmental Research Lab., OR.
Year Published 1985
Report Number EPA-R-808864; EPA/600/J-85/207;
Stock Number PB86-118890
Additional Subjects Organic compounds ; Saturated soils ; Water pollution ; Mathematical models ; Moisture ; Temperature ; Momentum ; Heat ; Water table ; Earth fills ; Reprints ; Unsaturated soils ; Path of pollutants
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NTIS  PB86-118890 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
A mathematical model, simulating the transport and fate of nonionizable organic compounds in unsaturated/saturated porous media (soils) in a terrestrial microcosm has been developed. Using the principles of water mass, momentum, heat energy and chemical mass balance, the three fields: moisture, temperature, and liquid phase chemical concentration are solved for simultaneously by coupling the soil slab to an environmentally realistic air-soil interface (a dynamic free boundary) conditions and a prescribed height water table. The environmental conditions at the soil surface-air chamber interface are easily changed, via geometric scaling factors, to simulate either an open agricultural field or a landfill type of situation.