Self-Organized Network of Chemical Reactions: A Model of Contaminated Converging and Diverging Flows in Fractured Media

Authors

R A. LaViolette
R J. Glass
David Peak, Utah State UniversityFollow
D L. Stoner

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volume

108

Issue

51

Publication Date

2004

First Page

19657

Last Page

19662

Abstract

A self-organized “tipping bucket model” of driven flow in fractured media was employed to study the degradation of contaminant by a dynamic population of traps representing microbial activity in the subsurface. For divergent flows, an increase in the degradation rate by an order of magnitude decreased the contaminant concentration in the exiting drips by at most one-third, but for convergent flows, the increased degradation rate did not significantly reduce the contaminant concentration.

Comments

Published by American Chemical Society in Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Publisher PDF is available through link above. Publisher requires subscription to access article.

Recommended Citation

LaViolette, R. A., Glass, R. J., Peak, D., & Stoner, D. L. (2004). Self-Organized Network of Chemical Reactions: A Model of Contaminated Converging and Diverging Flows in Fractured Media †. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 108, 19657-19662. doi:10.1021/jp0476500

https://doi.org/10.1021/jp0476500