Influence of Coupled Processes on the Fate and Transport of
Industrial Mixed Waste Plumes in Structured Media
A U.S. Department of Energy
Environmental Technology Partnership Initiative
P. M.
Jardine, ORNL Environmental
Sciences Division;
J. P. Gwo, ORNL Center for Computational
Sciences;
G. T. Yeh, Penn State
University and Modeling Applications and Research, Inc.;
F. M. Hoffman,
S. C. Brooks,
I. L. Larsen, and
R. J. Luxmoore,
ORNL Environmental Sciences Division
This research contributes to the goals of DOE's
Environmental Technology Partnership Program and specifically addresses
the recommendations outlined in the workshop on ``Basic Research Needs
for Environmentally Responsive Technologies of the Future,'' subsection
``Resources
Management, Transportation, Recovery, and Renewables.'' Its purpose
is to provide an improved understanding and predictive capability of
the fate and transport of industrial mixed waste plumes in subsurface
environments. The research is a multidisciplinary experimental and
numerical effort that integrates the behavioral dynamics of chemicals
and microbes in subsurface environments, with a novel
biophysicochemical model. The ultimate goal of this effort is to
provide new insights on coupled hydrological, geochemical, and
microbial processes that influence contaminant migration and integrate
these experimental findings with an advance software system that
maintains the conceptual rigor of field-scale processes. The resulting
product will facilitate the exploration of possible solutions for
industrial waste management problems and energy sources
recovery.
- Project
Objectives and Tasks
- Progress Reports
- Related Research, Papers, and Presentations
- Complexity in
Hydrobiogeochemistry: A Multidisciplinary Integrative Approach,
J. P. Jack Gwo
and Philip M. Jardine. Fifth SIAM Conference
on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, March
24-27, 1999, San Antonio, Texas.
- Field Facilities for
Groundwater Flow and Tracer Transport in Fractured Shale
Bedrock, P. M. Jardine, W.
E. Sanford,
J. P. Gwo,
F. M. Hoffman, S. C. Brooks, O. C. Reedy,
and M. A. Mayes.
- Field Scale
Flow and Transport Studies in Fractured Porous Media, W. E.
Sanford, P. M. Jardine, and D. K.
Solomon.
- D'Azevedo, E. F. and J. P. Gwo. ``Parallelization
of a Multiregion Flow and Transport Code using Software Emulated Global
Shared Memory and High Performance FORTRAN,'' In A. Tentner (ed.),
Proc. High Performance Computing, 1997. The Society for Computer
Simulation, April 1997, Atlanta, Georgia.
- Gwo, J.
P. and G.-T. Yeh, ``Application of a
Parallel 3-Dimensional Hydrogeochemistry HPF Code to a Proposed Waste
Disposal Site at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory,'' In A. Tentner
(ed.), Proc. High Performance Computing, 1997. The Society for
Computer Simulation, April, 1997, Atlanta, Georgia.
- ``A
Parallel 3-Dimensional HYDROGEOCHEM and an Application to a Proposed
Waste Disposal Site at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory,'' J. P. Gwo and G.-T. Yeh, EOS
Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 77, No. 46, p.
F203, 1996.
- Field
Facilities for Storm Driven Subsurface Transport Research, P. M. Jardine, R. J. Luxmoore, and Glenn
Wilson.
- Field Scale
Flow and Transport Studies in Fractured Porous Media, W. E.
Sanford, P. M. Jardine, and D. K.
Solomon.
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