Title :
Numerical Simulation of Contaminant Transport in Porous Soil
Author :
Li Lulu ; Zhao Wen ; Wang Yilin ; Meng Fanbo ; Ao Hongyan ; Wang Chang
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Life Sci. & Biotechnol., Dalian Fisheries Univ., Dalian, China
Abstract :
Solute transport in porous soils has been the topic of experimental, theoretical research and numerical simulation aspects. The complexity of the phenomenon of transport of pollutants in porous soil has to be faced in the most complete way. The contaminant transport processes in porous soils are simulated numerically based on overlap principle for a transient contaminant resource. The influences of duration and concentration of contaminant resource and dispersion coefficient of contaminant on contaminant transport processes are investigated numerically. The computation results show that the duration and concentration of contaminant resource can distinctly affect contaminant distribution and dispersion coefficient of contaminant has a small contribution.
Keywords :
disperse systems; flow through porous media; numerical analysis; porous materials; soil; soil pollution; contaminant distribution; contaminant transport; numerical simulation; phenomenon complexity; pollutants; porous soil; transient contaminant resource; Chemical industry; Contamination; Equations; Inverse problems; Numerical simulation; Parameter estimation; Predictive models; Soil; Water pollution; Water resources;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE), 2010 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4712-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2151-7614
DOI :
10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5517308