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TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING OF AQUIFER REMEDIATION INFLUENCED BY SORPTION NONEQUILIBRIUM AND HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY HETEROGENEITY
Citation:
Rabideau, A. AND C. Miller. TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING OF AQUIFER REMEDIATION INFLUENCED BY SORPTION NONEQUILIBRIUM AND HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY HETEROGENEITY. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/J-94/303.
Description:
A computational model was developed to simulate aquifer remediation by pump and treat for a confined, perfectly stratified aquifer. plit-operator finite element numerical technique was utilized to incorporate flow field heterogeneity and nonequilibrium sorption into a two-dimensional, radially symmetric advective-dispersive transport model. imulations reproduced the tailing behavior commonly observed at remedial sites. redicted remediation times were observed to increase as the degree of hydraulic conductivity heterogeneity and/or sorption nonequilibrium increased. imensional analysis was used to facilitate the general application of simulation results to a range of aquifer/contaminant systems. he effects of sorption nonlinearity, sorption capacity heterogeneity, and intermittent pumping were also analyzed.