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Bates et al. 2016
Bates, M.L., M. Bigot, R.A. Cropp, , C.L. Friedman, and D.W. Hawker, 2016: On the formulation of environmental fugacity models and their numerical solutions. Environ. Toxicol. Chem., 35, no. 9, 2182-2191, doi:10.1002/etc.3403.
Multimedia models based on chemical fugacity, solved numerically, play an important role in investigating and quantifying the environmental fate of chemicals such as persistent organic pollutants. These models have been used extensively in studying the local and global distribution of chemicals in the environment. The present study describes potential sources of error that may arise from the formulation and numerical solution of environmental fugacity models. The authors derive a general fugacity equation for the rate of change of mass in an arbitrary volume (e.g., an environmental phase). Deriving this general equation makes clear several assumptions that are often not articulated but can be important for successfully applying multimedia fugacity models. It shows that the homogeneity of fugacity and fugacity capacity in a volume (the homogeneity assumption) is fundamental to formulating discretized fugacity models. It also shows that when using the fugacity rather than mass as the state-variable, correction terms may be necessary to accommodate environmental factors such as varying phase temperatures and volume. Neglecting these can lead to conservation errors. The authors illustrate the manifestation of these errors using heuristic multimedia fugacity models. The authors also show that there are easily avoided errors that can arise in mass state-variable models if variables are not updated appropriately in the numerical integration scheme.
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@article{ba01600j,
author={Bates, M. L. and Bigot, M. and Cropp, R. A. and Engwirda, D. and Friedman, C. L. and Hawker, D. W.},
title={On the formulation of environmental fugacity models and their numerical solutions},
year={2016},
journal={Environ. Toxicol. Chem.},
volume={35},
number={9},
pages={2182--2191},
doi={10.1002/etc.3403},
}
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TY - JOUR ID - ba01600j AU - Bates, M. L. AU - Bigot, M. AU - Cropp, R. A. AU - Engwirda, D. AU - Friedman, C. L. AU - Hawker, D. W. PY - 2016 TI - On the formulation of environmental fugacity models and their numerical solutions JA - Environ. Toxicol. Chem. VL - 35 IS - 9 SP - 2182 EP - 2191 DO - 10.1002/etc.3403 ER -
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