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6.5 Breakthrough curve of average concentration . . . . . . . . . . 144
6.6 The relationship between dispersivity (based on ADE model)
and saturation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
6.7 Coefficient of variation (c v ) as a function of saturation . . . . . 147
6.8 The relation between fraction of percolating saturated pores and
saturation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
6.9 The relation between dispersivity of MIM model and saturation 150
6.10 Comparison between dispersivities calculated using the MDPN
model and results based on experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
6.11 Comparison between fraction of the mobile phase using MDPN
model together with the experimental results . . . . . . . . . . 152
6.12 (k r − S w ) curves shown for the three different networks . . . . 153
6.13 Schematic representation of unsaturated domain . . . . . . . . 155
7.1 Distributions of pore-body sizes within the pore network model. 164
7.2 The coordination number distribution of the MDPN . . . . . . 165
7.3 Relative permeability-saturation relation from the pore network 171
7.4 Solid-water (SW) and air-water (AW) total interfacial area as a
function of saturation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
7.5 The relationship between the ratio of adsorptive solute dispersivity
over tracer solute dispersivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
7.6 The relationship between solute dispersivity, α, and saturation,
S w . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
7.7 The resulting BTC from the network together with the BTC
obtained using the ADE model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
7.8 Calculated and fitted values of macro-scale distribution coefficient,
K D , as a function of saturation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
7.9 The resulting BTC from the network together with the fitted
BTC using the Nonequilibrium model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
A.1 Example of a network after random elimination process. . . . . 202
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