Exact Analytical Solutions for Contaminant Transport in Rivers

Contaminant transport processes in streams, rivers, and other surface water bodies can be analyzed or predicted using the advection-dispersion equation and related transport models. In part 1 of this two-part series we presented a large number of one- and multi-dimensional analytical solutions of th...

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Main Authors: Genuchten Martinus Th. van, Leij Feike J., Skaggs Todd H., Toride Nobuo, Bradford Scott A., Pontedeiro Elizabeth M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2013-09-01
Series:Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/johh-2013-0032
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Summary:Contaminant transport processes in streams, rivers, and other surface water bodies can be analyzed or predicted using the advection-dispersion equation and related transport models. In part 1 of this two-part series we presented a large number of one- and multi-dimensional analytical solutions of the standard equilibrium advection-dispersion equation (ADE) with and without terms accounting for zero-order production and first-order decay. The solutions are extended in the current part 2 to advective-dispersive transport with simultaneous first-order mass exchange between the stream or river and zones with dead water (transient storage models), and to problems involving longitudinal advectivedispersive transport with simultaneous diffusion in fluvial sediments or near-stream subsurface regions comprising a hyporheic zone. Part 2 also provides solutions for one-dimensional advective-dispersive transport of contaminants subject to consecutive decay chain reactions.
ISSN:0042-790X