Advances in Subsurface Pollution of Porous Media - Indicators, Processes and Modelling: IAH selected papers, volume 14 / Edition 1

by Lucila Candela, Inaki Vadillo, Francisco Javier Elorza

Overview

Advances in Subsurface Contamination of Porous Media: Indicators, Processes and Modelling provides a high level understanding of the processes concerning common and emergent contaminants through their passage from soil to groundwater. The book presents new methodologies and indicators to reach a better understanding of biogeochemical processes as a basis for environmental models. The combined use of the understanding of processes and models’ prognosis will inform researches and water managers and will provide the possibility for better management and preservation of water resources.

The book will be a valuable reference for graduate students, researchers and professionals in government and public institutions, and for those interested in soil and groundwater contamination in various aspects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415476904
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/01/2008
Series:	IAH - Selected Papers on Hydrogeology , #14
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lucila Candela is professor at the Department of Geotechnical Engineering and

Geoscience-UPC (Barcelona, Spain). Her research topics mainly address the nature and

fate of contaminants in the subsurface, laboratory process studies on contaminant transport

in porous media, and groundwater hydrology.

Iñaki Vadillo is researcher and lecturer at the Department of Geology, University of

Malaga (Spain). He is investigating the understanding of hydrochemical processes of

contaminants in aquifers (Nitrate pollution, landfills, isotope application in groundwater

pollution studies).

Francisco Javier Elorza is professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics in the

Madrid School of Mines – UPM (Madrid, Spain). His research topics mainly address

the numerical simulation of the nature and fate of contaminants in the surface and the

subsurface, stochastic modelling of environmental problems (i.e. transport in porous and

fracture geological media) and the simulation of coupled processes in porous media.

Table of Contents

Keynote lectures:

- Multicomponent diffusion in clays

- Modelling of solute mass transfer across the capillary fringe

- Strategies to quantify contaminant degradation in groundwater using stable isotope data

Alternative methods and indicators of water quality in natural porous media

Biogeochemical processes from soil to groundwater

Numerical simulation of pollutant transport and interaction in soil and subsoil