Abstract
Field experiments have indicated that reactive solute plumes released in natural porous media decelerate with time and undergo enhanced spreading. To analyze these and other unresolved transport issues, a methodology is presented to simulate the field-scale transport of dissolved nonpolar organic compounds in 3-D heterogeneous aquifers. This includes the development of a model that couples a stochastic technique for generating 3-D flow fields with a mobile−immobile domain model to account for sorption and intraparticle mass diffusion. The methodology is presented through the analysis of the transport of tetrachloroethylene (PCE) at the Borden site, and model results are compared to field data, analytical solutions, and other studies. The input parameters are based on laboratory data reported in the literature. The interpretation of these data is discussed, and the required experimental procedures are identified. The model results for the expected displacement of the plume's centroid (first spatial moment)...
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