GEOLOGY 691: Heat and Mass Transport in the Environment

This is the web page where you will find any files or data needed for the course.

Reading Assignments (as of April 17)

Pages

Fischer et al., Mixing in Inland and Coastal Waters, 1979

1-18 (optional); 23-24 (optional); All of ch. 2; p. 80-99

Optional: Parker & van Genuchten, Flux-averaged and volume-averaged concentrations in continuum approaches to solute transport, Water Resources Research, 20(7), 1984

866-872

Optional: de Hoog, F. R., J. H. Knight, and A. N. Stokes, An improved method of numerical inversion of Laplace transforms, SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Comput., 3(3), 1982. (optional)

357-366

Coming soon: Satterfield, C. N., C. K. Colton & W. H. Pitcher, Jr., Restriced diffusion in liquids within fine pores, AIChE J., 19(3), 1973.

628-635

   

Lab Assignment 1

Download an example FORTRAN program that demonstrates the use of the de Hoog algorithm for numerically inverting a function from the Laplace domain. You'll also need a makefile if you're working on peridot.

Assignment 2

If you do the optional Question 2, you will need this data set published by Grathwohl et al.[1994]. The first column of these data is time [days] and the second column is diffusive flux [micrograms/day].

Assignment 3

For the first question, you will be modeling diffusive uptake of mass into a core slab. To do this, you will need two data sets:

  1. The boundary conditions through time. The first column is time in seconds and the second column is normalized concentration
  2. The mass uptake through time. The first column is time in seconds, and the second column is normalized mass (normalized by the ultimate mass in the system at infinite time).

These data were collected at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque by Tracy Christian-Frear and Vince Tidwell, who graciously supplied us with the data.

 

For the second question, you will need the tritium data from July, 1961 to the 1990's for Anchorage. The first column is time in years and the second column is tritium in Bq/L.

Assignment 4

The James & Rubin data set is here. There are four columns of data: chloride time, chloride data, calcium time and calcium data. All concentrations are normalized by injection concentration. All time are in seconds.

 

Software, Etcetera

The USGS's web site containing most (maybe all?) of their software, including a directory of all their published analytical solutions for solute transport.

Last Updated April 27, 2001.