Solute transport in aggregated porous media: Comparing model independent and dependent parameter estimation

✍ Scribed by Sabine Koch; Hannes Flühler

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 655 KB
• Volume: 68
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0049-6979
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00479408

✦ Synopsis

In many studies on solute transport soil column experiments are used to obtain the transport characteristics for Convection-Dispersion-Models. Early breakthrough of the solute pulse has been attributed to a non-equilibrium in phase exchange. It is a standard procedure to determine several model parameter values from such breakthrough curves (BTC). This investigation is focused on the physical significance of simultaneously fitted parameter values used in the convection and diffusion-controlled mass transfer model (mobile -immobile phase concept). Saturated column experiments were conducted with solid phases consisting of porous and solid glass beads. One set of model parameter values was obtained from the breakthrough curves by simultaneous optimization and a second set was determined by independent measurements of individual parameter values. Both sets of parameter values described the BTCs equally well but deviated substantially from each other. These discrepancies were analysed in terms of local parameter sensitivities.