Effects of Heterogeneity on Transport

It is well established that heterogeneity in hydraulic conductivity impacts dramatically contaminant transport in porous media. Watch related videos, answer short questions, and re-create the animations using IGW-NET.

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The subsurface environment is often characterized by strong spatial heterogeneity (e.g., hydraulic conductivity) as well as temporal hydrological variability. The combined influence of or nonlinear interaction between temporal fluctuations and spatial heterogeneity on solute transport in porous media can be understood by performing simulations of unsteady flow and transport in heterogeneous media. Watch related videos, answer short questions, and re-create the animations using IGW-NET.

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Hydrogeologic properties vary naturally in space as a result of complex depositional processes that evolve the aquifers. As a result, fluid flow and contaminant transport in aquifers are governed by parameter variations occurring across multiple scales. Watch related videos, answer short questions, and re-create the animations using IGW-NET.

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It is well known that heterogeneity in hydraulic conductivity - ubiquitous in real-world aquifers, is one of the main factors controlling solute transport processes. Increasing the heterogeneity level and scale of the K‐field will enhance the probability of having preferential paths that are fundamental in predicting the first time arrivals. Watch the related videos, answer short questions, and re-create the animations using IGW-NET.

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Limitation of Pump and Treat (Requires Premium Account)

The past decades of industrialization and urbanization, intensive farming and deforesting, and other activities of modern society has left a legacy of groundwater contamination across the world. Thus, an important topic in groundwater science and engineering is the cleanup of contamination groundwater, or groundwater remediation. Watch related videos, answer short questions, and re-create the animations using IGW-NET.

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Beginner - Watch videos and respond. Background: The past decades of industrialization and urbanization, intensive farming and deforesting, and other activities of modern society has left a legacy of groundwater contamination across the world. Thus, s=an important topic in groundwater science and engineering is the cleanup of contamination groundwater, or groundwater remediation.

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Macrodispersion Model (Requires Premium Account)

Small scale heterogeneity in hydraulic conductivity can dramatically enhance contaminant spreading at the field scale. This enhanced spreading can be sometimes conveniently represented as "macrodispersion" using a set of so called "macrodispersion coefficients". Watch the related videos, answer short questions, and re-create the animations using IGW-NET.

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