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A boundary integral method for contaminant transport in two adjacent porous media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

K. A. Landman
K. A. Landman
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia.
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The problem of transient two-dimensional transport by diffusion and advection of a decaying contaminant in two adjacent porous media is solved using a boundary-integral method. The method requires the construction of appropriate Green's functions. Application of Green's theorem in the plane then yields representations for the contaminant concentration in both regions in terms of an integral of the initial concentration over the region's interior and integrals along the boundaries of known quantities and the unknown interfacial flux between the two adjacent media. This flux is given by a first-kind integral equation, which can be solved numerically by a discretisation technique. Examples of contaminant transport in fractured porous media systems are presented.

Type
Research Article
Information
The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , January 1989 , pp. 251 - 267
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1989

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