Development of a General Conceptual-numerical Model to Simulate the Fate and Subsurface Transport of Explosives, and the Moisture and Temperature Signatures Around Land Mines

Abstract

We have developed a general conceptual-mathematical model is applicable to the fate and advective-dispersive transport of most explosives and its metabolites in the vadose zone or groundwater. The model accounts for the most important physical, chemical and biological processes known or hypothesized to affect the behavior and simultaneous transport of the major explosives (the parent products) such as TNT or RDX, and its various metabolites, as they are being sequentially created by degradation of the parent compound. The parent and daughter compounds are allowed to have different mobilities in the subsurface as dictated by their specific dissolution, sorption and transport properties.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA499509

Entities

People

  • Jirí Šimůnek

Organizations

  • University of California, Riverside

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Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biological Sciences
  • Chemistry
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Earth Sciences
  • Ecology
  • Ecotoxicology
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Geography
  • Groundwater
  • High Explosives
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Mathematical Models
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Soil Science
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Water Resources

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  • Agricultural Chemistry/Soil Science
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation