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A problem of great importance in environmental science is to understand how chemical or biological contaminants are transported through subsurface aquifer systems. In this chapter we consider the transport of a chemical or biological tracer carried by water through a uniform, one-dimensional, saturated, porous medium, and we derive simple mathematical models based on mass balance that incorporate advection, dispersion, and adsorption. Thus, we extend the ideas in the Chapter 1, where we focused only on the diffusion process with no flow.
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Logan, J.D. (2001). Reaction—Advection—Dispersion Equation. In: Transport Modeling in Hydrogeochemical Systems. Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, vol 15. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3518-5_2
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