Multiscale framework for modeling multicomponent reactive transport in stream corridors

Painter, Scott L.

doi:10.1029/2018WR022831

Title: Multiscale framework for modeling multicomponent reactive transport in stream corridors

Journal Article · 19 September 2018 · Water Resources Research

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR022831 · OSTI ID:1474870

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Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Abstract Travel time‐based representations of transport, a highly successful strategy for modeling conservative tracer transport in stream corridors, are extended to accommodate multicomponent reactive transport. Specifically, convolution representations used to model exchange of solute with the hyporheic zone are shown to be equivalent to solving one‐dimensional subgrid models in Lagrangian form coupled to the advection dispersion equation for the stream channel. Unlike the convolution‐based representations of previous travel time‐based stream transport models, the subgrid model generalizes to include multicomponent reactive transport with general nonlinear reactions. An example involving biomass growth, the establishment of redox zonation, and the resulting impact on denitrification rates demonstrate reach‐scale application of the new approach. Although simplified, those example simulations show some of the key phenomena associated with hyporheic zone denitrification that are not represented with conventional first‐order estimates.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1474870

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1476374

Journal Information:: Water Resources Research, Vol. 54, Issue 10; ISSN 0043-1397

Publisher:: American Geophysical Union (AGU)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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