Numerical Modeling of Contaminant Transport with Rate-Limited Sorption/Desorption in an Aquifer.

Abstract

Years of accidental or deliberate dumping of petroleum products and hazardous waste materials has resulted in polluted groundwater. The Department of Defense is engaged in a massive program, known as the Installation Restoration Program, to cleanup these polluted environments on military installations, and the Environmental Protection Agency is funding research to help in the cleanup efforts. These cleanup efforts often involve drilling wells in the vicinity of the contaminated area and evacuating water until the concentration of pollutant is reasonably low. The planners at these remediation sites use tools to estimate how long the wells must operate based on some initial sample data and sound judgement. (jes)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA215429

Entities

People

  • Rand C. Huso

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Classification
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Desorption
  • Differential Equations
  • Diffusion Coefficient
  • Engineering
  • Environmental Pollutants
  • Equations
  • Geometry
  • Groundwater
  • Materials
  • Sorption
  • Transport Ships
  • Water
  • Water Resources

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Environmental Engineering.
  • Groundwater Contamination Remediation.