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ON CONCEPTUAL AND NUMERICAL MODELING OF FLOW AND TRANSPORT IN GROUNDWATER WITH THE AID OF TRACERS: A CASE STUDY

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Soil and Water Pollution Monitoring, Protection and Remediation

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Transport models based on calibrated flow models may often yield wrong predictions unless recalibrated with the aid of environmental tracers because migration velocity depends on the ratio of hydraulic conductivity to porosity whereas flow rates depend on transmissivity.

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  1. Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, AGH - University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Krakow, Poland

    Jaroslaw Kania & Stanislaw Witczak

  2. Faculty of Physics and Nuclear Techniques, AGH - University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Krakow, Poland

    Kazimierz Rozanski

  3. Polish Geological Institute, Carpathian Branch, 1 Skrzatow St., 31-560, Krakow, Poland

    Andrzej Zuber

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zabrze, Poland

    Irena Twardowska

  2. Center for Study of Metals in the Environment, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, U.S.A.

    Herbert E. Allen

  3. Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Biotechnology Center for Agriculture and the Environment, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A.

    Max M. Häggblom

  4. Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zabrze, Poland

    Sebastian Stefaniak

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Kania, J., Rozanski, K., Witczak, S., Zuber, A. (2006). ON CONCEPTUAL AND NUMERICAL MODELING OF FLOW AND TRANSPORT IN GROUNDWATER WITH THE AID OF TRACERS: A CASE STUDY. In: Twardowska, I., Allen, H.E., Häggblom, M.M., Stefaniak, S. (eds) Soil and Water Pollution Monitoring, Protection and Remediation. NATO Science Series, vol 69. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4728-2_13

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