Advective transport describes the movement of some material transported along with the water through a waterway. Examples include the salt dissolved in the oceans, or silt or clay present in a river. In almost all cases the water in a river will not flow steadily but instead rather turbulently. Including the effect of turbulence in the transport of particles is not a straightforward calculation.

	Occurs in
	Water	Sediment	Soil
Fate descriptors	Algorithms

Flow rate

Advective transport in the NanoFASE model

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Consult the NanoFASE Library to see abstracts of these deliverable reports: NanoFASE Report D8.2 Report on Driving Forces on NM behaviour in Natural Waters for Agglomeration and Transformation

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Frank von der Kammer

University of Vienna, Austria

Email: frank.von.der.kammer@univie.ac.at