Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling

The challenges facing groundwater scientists and engineers todaydemand expertise in a wide variety of disciplines-geology, hydraulics, geochemistry, geophysics, and biology. As the number ofthe subdisciplines has increased and as each has become morecomplex and quantitative, the problem of integrating their conceptsand contributions into a coherent overall interpretation has becomeprogressively more difficult. To an increasing degree transportsimulation has emerged as an answer to this problem, and thetransport model has become a vehicle for integrating the vastamount of field data from a variety of sources and forunderstanding the relationship of various physical, chemical, andbiological processes.

Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling is the first resourcedesigned to provide coverage of the discipline's basicprinciples, including the theories behind solute transport ingroundwater, common numerical techniques for solving transportequations, and step-by-step guidance on the development and use offield-scale modeling. The Second Edition incorporates recentadvances in contaminant transport theory and simulation techniques, adding the following to the original text:

-An expanded discussion of the role of aquifer heterogeneity incontrolling solute transport
-A new section on the dual-domain mass transfer approach as analternative to the classical advection-dispersion model
-Additional chemical processes and reactions in the discussion ofreactive transport
-A discussion of the TVD (total-variation-diminishing) approach totransport solution
-An entirely new Part III containing two chapters on simulation offlow and transport under variable water density and under variablesaturation, respectively, and a third chapter on the use of thesimulation-optimization approach in remediation system design

Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling, Second Edition remainsthe premier reference for practicing hydrogeologists, environmentalscientists, engineers, and graduate students in the field. In 1998, in recognition of their work on the first edition, the authors werehonored with the John Hem Excellence in Science and EngineeringAward of the National Ground Water Association