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Advances in Chemical Engineering and Science, 2012, 2, 481-489 / 10.4236/aces.2012.24059 Published Online October 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/aces) Conceptual Modeling of Contaminated Solute Transport Based on Stream Tube Model 1,2 1,2 2 1 1* Seung-Gun Chung , Soon-Jae Lee , Dong-Ju Kim , Sang-Hyup Lee , Jae-Woo Choi 1Center for Water Resource Cycle Research, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea 2Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Science, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea * Email: plead36@kist.re.kr Received July 28, 2012; revised August 30, 2012; accepted September 9, 2012 ABSTRACT In this study, we performed a conceptual modeling on solute transport based on theoretical stream tube model (STM) with various travel time distributions assuming a pure convective flow through each tube in order to investigate how the lengths and distributions of solute travel time through STM affect the breakthrough curves at the end mixing surface. The conceptual modeling revealed that 1) the shape of breakthrough curve (BTC) at the mixing surface was determined by not only input travel time distributions but also solute injection mode such as sampling time and pulse lengths; 2) the increase of pulse length resulted in the linear increase of the first time moment (mean travel time) and quadratic in- crease of the second time moment (variance of travel time) leading to more spreading of solute, however, the second time moment was not affected by travel time distributions; and 3) for a given input distributions the increase in travel di