ISSN:
1745-6584
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
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Geosciences
Notes:
Under freezing or near-freezing conditions, temperature-induced viscosity changes, solute immobilization, and solute exclusion can affect field-scale solute transport in ground water. This can lead to concentration profiles significantly different from those predicted by models which do not account for these processes. A model (GWFREEZE) is presented which incorporates these processes into a two-dimensional transport equation for saturated porous media subject to a hydraulic head field that does not vary with time.Ground-water temperature can be expected to vary widely in some natural and artificial freezing and near-freezing situations. Spatially varying temperature fields cause spatial variations in the fluid viscosity field, especially near 0° C, where viscosity varies faster with temperature than at higher temperatures. GWFREEZE models these phenomena with a viscosity-dependent hydraulic conductivity that is a function of temperature. Solute exclusion is modeled by a variable exclusion coefficient (Ke) which represents the percentage of solute excluded at the freezing front. The freezing front is modeled as a planar no-flow boundary behind which solutes are immobilized and at which solutes are excluded.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6584.1991.tb00492.x
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