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Migration of volatile organic contaminations (VOCs) through a deforming clay liner

A fully coupled thermal–hydraulic–mechanical–chemical (THMC) model was proposed to describe the migration of volatile organic contaminations (VOCs) in unsaturated landfill liners. The vertical soil stress, capillary pressure, air pressure, temperature incr ...

Elsevier2013

Chloride circulation in a lowland catchment and the formulation of transport by travel time distributions

Andrea Rinaldo, Paolo Benettin, Gianluca Botter

Travel times are fundamental catchment descriptors that blend key information about storage, geochemistry, flow pathways and sources of water into a coherent mathematical framework. Here we analyze travel time distributions (TTDs) (and related attributes) ...

Amer Geophysical Union2013

Infiltration in soils with a saturated surface

David Andrew Barry, Marc Parlange

An earlier infiltration equation relied on curve fitting of infiltration data for the determination of one of the parameters, which limits its usefulness in practice. This handicap is removed here, and the parameter is now evaluated by linking it directly ...

American Geophysical Union2013

Macropores and water flow in soils revisited

The original review of macropores and water flow in soils by Beven and Germann is now 30 years old and has become one of the most highly cited papers in hydrology. This paper attempts to review the progress in observations and theoretical reasoning about p ...

Amer Geophysical Union2013

Impacts of irrigation with industrial treated wastewater on soil properties

André Mermoud, Pascal Boivin

Wastewater reuse in agriculture is a widespread practice in developing countries, especially in urban areas where water shortage and poverty encourage people to use that marginal resource. Raw or treated wastewaters are used by farmers, but even treated wa ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Above- and belowground linkages in Sphagnum peatland: climate warming affects plant-microbial interactions

Alexandre Buttler, Edward Mitchell, Vincent Eric Jules Jassey

Peatlands contain approximately one third of all soil organic carbon (SOC). Warming can alter above- and belowground linkages that regulate soil organic carbon dynamics and C-balance in peatlands. Here we examine the multiyear impact of in situ experimenta ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Significance of rock THM parameters in geological nuclear waste storage simulation

Lyesse Laloui, Fabrice Dupray, Chao Li

A deep geological repository involving a multi-barrier system constitutes one of the most promising options to isolate high-level radioactive waste from the human environment. In order to certify the efficiency of waste isolation, it is essential to unders ...

2013

Moisture and energy dynamics in fields soils

Francesco Ciocca

Soil moisture is crucial to water-cycle as it affects infiltration, runoff and land-atmosphere interactions. In dry soils the role of water vapor fluxes becomes essential and causes a tight coupling between soil moisture dynamics and heat transfer, which m ...

EPFL2013

The impact of soil properties on the structural integrity of high-fill reinforced concrete culverts

Liang Sun, Baoguo Chen

Reinforced concrete (RC) culverts under high fill have been widely used in the construction of expressways and railways. Based on the results of a field survey, various types of structural damage to RC culverts occur during construction and service periods ...

Elsevier2013

THM coupling sensitivity analysis in geological nuclear waste storage

Lyesse Laloui, Fabrice Dupray, Chao Li

Elsevier2013

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