Closure to 'Investigation of Consolidation-Induced Solute Transport. I: Effect of Consolidation on Transport Parameters' by J. Lee, P. J. Fox, and J. J. Lenhart

摘要

The writers thank the discussers for their thoughtful comments on the paper. The discussers express concern that: (1) the experimental program investigated the effect of void ratio, not consolidation, on the transport parameters; (2) the writers failed to consider osmotic effects in the study; (3) the outflow boundary condition in the form of Eq. (9) is not appropriate for the conditions tested, (4) no intrinsic mechanism was provided for the higher values of Dh for K~+ relative to values of D_h for Br~-; and (5) analysis of reser-voir concentrations, as opposed to final concentration profiles, may have biased the diffusion test results. These comments will be addressed sequentially.