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The study of migration or the fate of the contaminant miscible in ground water from waste site, dumping yards or landfills is essential for preparation of ground water contamination models. Numerical methods are generally adopted to measure the key parameters at a small scale as it is time consuming and costly to determine them in the field and used for quantifying flow and transport in large scales in in-situ conditions applied to simulate real contaminant transport models. These methods need a number of key parameters such as porosity, hydrodynamic dispersion, velocity of contaminant flow and Temperatures. The main aim of this research is to evaluate the nonlinear variation of the Distribution coefficient with parameters like porosity, power factor and bulk density based on detailed experimentation carried out on physical models in the laboratory and development of a suitable and appropriate numerical model. The batch and column tests were conducted to evaluate the distribution coefficient and sorption capacity.