SCHEDULE
Weeks 1 - 6 Fundamental Aspects of Interfaces
Characterization and Thermodynamics of Interfaces; Disjoining Pressure and Thin Films; Long Range Forces (van der Waals, Lifshitz Theory, Hamaker Constant); Liquid-Gas interfaces: Surface Tension, Capillarity, Contact Angle (wetability); Electrified Interfaces; Introduction to Clay Surfaces; Other Surfaces with Constant and Variable Charge; Introduction to Adsorption Processes: Adsorption at the Solid-Gas Interface; Adsorption from Solution at the Solid-liquid Interface.
   
Weeks 7 - 9 Transport through Saturated Porous Media
Issues of Scale; Units and Dimensions; Modes of Transport - Diffusion, Convection, Dispersion; The Convection Dispersion Equation (CDE); Transport at the Column and Profile Scale; Break-Through Curves (BTC) as Diagnostic Tools; Simple Analytical Solutions; Transport in Saturated Heterogeneous Systems. Nonaqueous phase entrapment.
   
Weeks 10 - 11 Transport Processes and Interfaces
Retardation Coefficient, Ion Exchange, Competitive Adsorption, Biological Activity
Weeks 12 - 14 Transport in Unsaturated Media
Interfacial Configurations in Porous Media (simple geometry); Opportunity Time - Assumption of Local Equilibrium; Boundary Layer; Student Critique of Multi-domain models: 2-site/2-region, multiple reaction, physical and chemical non-equilibrium.

 

 

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