Paper
Accurate Description of Conservative Tracer Plumes Evolution by a Thermodynamic Function in Streams
- Authors:
- Duvan J. Mesa; Alfredo J. Constaín
- Abstract
- An important environmental issue for theory and applications of quality of water models in natural flows is to know precisely how to evolve the solute plume in time and space. Transport theory is by definition the branch of water sciences that most information bear due to the several physical and chemical mechanisms involved at the same time. However, currently, state-of-the-art available models are unclear when addressing this subject. This drawback probably appears by the lack of understanding of real mechanism acting in the process. In this paper, the definition of a thermodynamic function that may help to reveal those mechanisms behind this process is discussed, and in this approach discharge may be involved as internal parameter. Applying the new equations it is presented here the experimental results in a large mountain river in Colombia.
- Keywords
- Mass Transport in Fluids; Tracer Dynamics
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- 119
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