A critical review of the influence of groundwater level fluctuations and temperature on LNAPL contaminations in the context of climate change

A Cavelan, F Golfier, S Colombano, H Davarzani… - Science of the total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) predicts significant changes in
precipitation patterns, an increase in temperature, and groundwater level variations by 2100 …

Organic contaminant transport and fate in the subsurface: Evolution of knowledge and understanding

HI Essaid, BA Bekins… - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Toxic organic contaminants may enter the subsurface as slightly soluble and volatile
nonaqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) or as dissolved solutes resulting in contaminant plumes …

Improved prediction of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity with the Mualem‐van Genuchten model

MG Schaap, FJ Leij - Soil Science Society of America Journal, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
In many vadose zone hydrological studies, it is imperative that the soil's unsaturated
hydraulic conductivity is known. Frequently, the Mualem–van Genuchten model (MVG) is …

A review of NAPL source zone remediation efficiency and the mass flux approach

K Soga, JWE Page, TH Illangasekare - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2004 - Elsevier
A number of previous studies are reviewed to examine the actual reduction of NAPL from
source zones and the effectiveness of the specific technique of remediation used at sites …

Modeling field‐scale dense nonaqueous phase liquid dissolution kinetics in heterogeneous aquifers

JC Parker, E Park - Water Resources Research, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates field‐scale DNAPL dissolution kinetics using high‐resolution
numerical simulations of DNAPL releases and dissolved phase transport. A percolation …

Steady state mass transfer from single‐component dense nonaqueous phase liquids in uniform flow fields

TC Sale, DB McWhorter - Water Resources Research, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years it has become increasingly clear that most remedial technologies fail to
completely remove dense nonaqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) from subsurface source …

A new compressive scheme to simulate species transfer across fluid interfaces using the volume-of-fluid method

J Maes, C Soulaine - Chemical Engineering Science, 2018 - Elsevier
We present a new compressive scheme to simulate species transfer across fluid interfaces
using the Volume-Of-Fluid method. We show that at high Péclet numbers, the standard …

Hydrogeophysical characterization of nonstationary DNAPL source zones by integrating a convolutional variational autoencoder and ensemble smoother

X Kang, A Kokkinaki, PK Kitanidis, X Shi… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Detailed characterization of dense nonaqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) source zone
architecture (SZA) is essential for designing efficient remediation strategies. However, it is …

DNAPL source depletion: Linking architecture and flux response

AD Fure, JW Jawitz, MD Annable - Journal of contaminant hydrology, 2006 - Elsevier
The relationship between dense non-aqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) mass reduction and
contaminant mass flux was investigated experimentally in four model source zones. The flow …

Gravity‐destabilized nonwetting phase invasion in macroheterogeneous porous media: Experimental observations of invasion dynamics and scale analysis

RJ Glass, SH Conrad, W Peplinski - Water resources research, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
We designed and conducted experiments in a heterogeneous sand pack where gravity‐
destabilized nonwetting phase invasion (CO2 and trichloroethylene) could be recorded …