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| Titel |
On the importance of aqueous diffusion and electrostatic interactions in advection-dominated transport in saturated porous media |
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Massimo Rolle |
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EGU General Assembly 2015
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Artikel
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Englisch
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In: GRA - Volume 17 (2015) |
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250102585
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2015-1914.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Diffusion and compound-specific mixing significantly affect conservative and reactive transport in groundwater. The variability of diffusion coefficients for different solutes has a relevant impact on their displacement at different scales, not only under diffusion-dominated regimes but also under advection-dominated flow through conditions. When the solutes are charged species, besides the magnitude of their aqueous diffusion coefficients also their electrostatic interactions play a significant role in the displacement of the different species. Under flow-through conditions this leads to multicomponent ionic dispersion: the dispersive fluxes of the different ions are cross-coupled due to the effects of Coulombic interactions. Such effects are illustrated in flow-through experiments in saturated porous media. Simple strong electrolytes were selected as tracers and their transport was studied under different advection-dominated conditions and in homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media. The interpretation of the experimental results requires a multicomponent modeling approach with an accurate description of local hydrodynamic dispersion and explicitly accounting for the cross-coupling of dispersive fluxes due to the Coulombic interactions between the charged species. |
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