Direct Breakthrough Curve Prediction from Statistics of Heterogeneous Conductivity Fields
S.K. Hansen, C.P. Haslauer, O.A. Cirpka, V.V. Vesselinov
Water Resources Research2018DOI 10.1002/2017WR020450
Summary
It is widely recognized that solute transport in real aquifers is characterized by asymmetric plumes and heavy-tailed breakthrough curves. This behavior may be advection driven (created by neighboring stream tubes with significantly different velocities; e.g., Edery et al., 2014), or diffusion driven (caused by mobileimmobile trapping processes that sever the link between advection and transport; e.g., Haggerty et al., 2000).