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Comparative analysis and development of models for groundwater quality prediction. Report for 1 Oct 78-30 Sep 80

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5776735

The advection-dispersion equation is widely used to describe Fickian transport of pollutants, and in recent years there has been much interest in the possibility of using this equation to predict the effect of groundwater flow on the migration of radionuclides from geological repositories of nuclear waste to the biosphere. A comparative analysis of numerical approaches to advection-dispersion suggests that these can be broadly classified as Eulerian, Lagrangian, and Eulerian-Lagrangian. A rigorous theoretical foundation was developed for the Eulerian-Lagrangian method.

Research Organization:
Arizona Water Resources Research Center, Tucson (USA)
OSTI ID:
5776735
Report Number(s):
PB-83-167791
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English