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| Titel |
A Critical Analysis of Transverse Dispersivity Field Data |
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Sabine Attinger, Alraune Zech, Alberto Bellin, Vladimir Cvetkovic, Gedeon Dagan, Peter Dietrich, Aldo Fiori, Georg Teutsch |
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EGU General Assembly 2016
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
en
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 18 (2016) |
| Datensatznummer |
250132158
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2016-12638.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Spreading of solute plumes in groundwater is often quantified by macrodispersivity. Thereby, the transverse αT and vertical αV characterize the broadening of the plume in the vertical plane, perpendicular to the flow direction. Determining αT and αV from field experiments is difficult and costly. Still, it is an important parameter for making predictions of contaminant transport e.g. for stationary contamination plumes, bio-degradation and natural attenuation.
Measured values of αT and αV at field scale are only available for a few sites. Gelhar and coworkers classified in 1992 the values into three reliability groups: highly, moderately and lowly reliable. Only recently, we could show for the longitudinal macrodispersivity αL, that the values of low reliability need to be excluded for further analysis, based on a re-evaluation of the experiments. Furthermore, new studies emerged in the meantime, which requires evaluation of reliability and incorporation, when appropriate.
This work focuses on collecting reliable field data of transverse and vertical macrodispersivities. The ensemble of reliable αT and αV values is then used to answer the following questions: (i) Is there an upper limit of αT and αV or the tendency of increasing values with increasing travel distance of tracer plumes? (ii) Can the field data be predicted by theoretical models? (iii) What can we learn from the field based ratios αV/αT and αT/αL? The investigation may provide valuable information for modeling and predicting contaminant transport in groundwater. |
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