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8. Models for Tracer Test Analysis and Interpretation

Author : Vyacheslav G. Rumynin

Published in: Subsurface Solute Transport Models and Case Histories

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

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Abstract

A common approach to characterizing aquifer mass transfer properties is the use of tracer tests. Our focus is mostly on tracer tests that employ a forced flow field induced by injection and/or withdrawal wells. Such tests offer advantages for estimating transport properties in porous and fractured media over natural gradient tracer tests (Hydraulic and tracer testing…, 1996). We also will focus on the analysis of models describing the vertical movement of natural saltwater–freshwater interface in thick groundwater systems. The interpretation of the latter process also results in useful information about solute transport properties of systems featuring natural hydrogeochemical stratification. Those models are next modified to account for density difference between the fluids in contact (see Secs. 12.3 and 14.2).

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Title: Models for Tracer Test Analysis and Interpretation
Author: Vyacheslav G. Rumynin
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Book: Subsurface Solute Transport Models and Case Histories
Print ISBN: 978-94-007-1305-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-94-007-1306-2

Copyright Year: 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1306-2_8