Numerical Models in Groundwater Pollution

✍ Scribed by Dr. Karel Kovarik (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 230
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Mathematical models are the effective tool to solve different tasks predicting pollutant movement. The finite difference method is the oldest, but still remains widely used in hydrogeological practice. However, this method is not very useful to construct the new transport models because it cannot approximate the shape of remediation elements exactly. Therefore the book is concerned with the FEM (Finite Element Method) and BEM (Boundary Element Method), and also with the comparison of advantages of these methods in groundwater hydrology. The combination of the BEM and the random-walk particle tracking method, which seems to be a very useful tool to model the spread of pollution in groundwater, are also presented. The computer programmes have been developed on the basis of the theoretical backgrounds of these methods. They use the Visual C++ programming language for Windows 95/NT platform and will be included in the book.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Introduction....Pages 1-2
Basic Equations of Groundwater Flow....Pages 3-33
Basic Equations of Transport of Pollutants in Porous Media....Pages 35-48
Weighted Residuals Method....Pages 49-60
Mathematical Models of Groundwater Flow....Pages 61-108
Mathematical Models of Transport of Miscible Pollutants....Pages 109-124
Comparison of Properties of All the Methods....Pages 125-130
Examples of the Use of Models in Practice....Pages 131-174
Description of Software Included in This Book....Pages 175-218
Back Matter....Pages 219-224

✦ Subjects

Hydrogeology; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics; Earth Sciences, general; Earth Sciences, general; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Eart