EarthRef.org Reference Database (ERR)
Development and Maintenance by the EarthRef.org Database Team

Detailed Reference Information
Cirpka & Kitanidis 2000
Cirpka, O.A. and Kitanidis, P.K. (2000). An advective-dispersive stream tube approach for the transfer of conservative-tracer data to reactive transport. Water Resources Research 36: doi: 10.1029/1999WR900355. issn: 0043-1397.

Conservative-tracer data are used for the parameterization of mixing-controlled reactive transport. Temporal moments of the tracer breakthrough curve integrated over the outflow boundary of the domain yield the average velocity and the path-averaged macrodispersion coefficient. On the basis of this information alone, no distinction is possible between spreading and mixing of the tracer. Analyzing the temporal moments of breakthrough curves locally obtained at single points in the domain gives additional information about the dilution of the tracer. In an accompanying paper <Cirpka and Kitanidis, this issue> we derive an apparent P¿clet number of mixing Pea from local temporal moments. Assuming that Pea is constant over the cross section of the outflow boundary, a corrected probability density function of arrival times is determined. By interpreting the spatially integrated breakthrough curve as the result of advective-dispersive transport in independent stream tubes with identical P¿clet number but differing seepage velocity, it is possible to transfer results of conservative transport to the transport of interacting compounds for cases in which mixing of the compounds is influenced significantly by local-scale dispersion. This is an improvement to the stochastic-convective model of Simmons et al. <1995> for the transfer of integrated tracer data to reactive transport. The approach is applied to the hypothetical case of a bimolecular reaction in a heterogeneous two-dimensional aquifer. ¿ 2000 American Geophysical Union

BACKGROUND DATA FILES

Abstract

Keywords
Hydrology, Groundwater hydrology, Hydrology, Groundwater transport, Hydrology, Stochastic processes
Journal
Water Resources Research
http://www.agu.org/wrr/
Publisher
American Geophysical Union
2000 Florida Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009-1277
USA
1-202-462-6900
1-202-328-0566
service@agu.org
Click to clear formClick to return to previous pageClick to submit