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American Geophysical Union, Water Resources Research, 5(44), 2008

DOI: 10.1029/2007wr006750

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Geoelectrical inference of mass transfer parameters using temporal moments

Journal article published in 2008 by Frederick D. Day Lewis ORCID, Kamini Singha
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

We present an approach to infer mass-transfer parameters based on (1) an analytical model that relates the temporal moments of mobile and bulk concentration; and (2) a bicontinuum modification to Archie's Law. Whereas conventional geochemical measurements preferentially sample from the mobile domain, electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) is sensitive to bulk electrical conductivity and, thus, electrolytic solute in both the mobile and immobile domains. We demonstrate the new approach, in which temporal moments of co-located mobile-domain conductivity (i.e., conventional sampling) and ERT-estimated bulk conductivity are used to calculate heterogeneous mass-transfer rate and immobile porosity fractions in a series of numerical column experiments.