Pollutant particle transportation is usually slower than water itself while they look like travel together. However nutrient transportation involves too many biological interactions and sediment deposition so we often need to resort to experimental techniques.
My question is what is the theoretical relationship between this two velocities (celerity for hydrology and velocity for nutrient) from the point view of hydrodynamics without involving experiments. Any useful equations or references? Thanks a lot!!
Dear Meili Feng,
let me advise one basic point to you that see different journals how they are doing experimental then try to develop your own modeling according to literature values provided.
i will recommend the text book by Jacob Bear and Arnold Verruijt on Modelling Groundwater Flow and Pollution
Thank all of your ideas! I also found an interesting literature on this if anyone would be interested to read:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013WR015141/full
McDonnell, J. J., & Beven, K. (2014). Debates—The future of hydrological sciences: A (common) path forward? A call to action aimed at understanding velocities, celerities and residence time distributions of the headwater hydrograph. Water Resources Research, 50(6), 5342-5350.
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