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The transport experiments conducted by Los Alamos National Laboratory for saturated flow in an intermediate-scale caisson are described. The results suggest that the solute spreading pattern has been dominated by the effect of spatial variability of hydraulic properties. A stochastic model of horizontally varying velocity distribution is employed in order to interpret the concentration data in terms of travel time distribution. A satisfactory match between the measured solute mass cross-sectional transfer in saturated flow and model is achieved for a standard deviation of the logconductivity of 1.2. The model may serve for future interpretation of transport in unsaturated flow and for reactive solutes conducted in the same caisson.
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Nguyen, V., Dagan, G., Springer, E.P. (1990). Analysis of Caisson Transport Experiment by Travel Time Approach. In: Roth, K., Jury, W.A., Flühler, H., Parker, J.C. (eds) Field-Scale Water and Solute Flux in Soils. Monte Verità. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9264-3_10
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