Adaptive hierarchical grid model of water-borne pollutant dispersion
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Water pollution by industrial and agricultural waste is an increasingly major public health issue. It is therefore important for water engineers and managers to be able to predict accurately the local behaviour of water-borne pollutants. This paper describes the novel and ecient coupling of dynamically adaptive hierarchical grids with standard solvers of the advection±diusion equation. Adaptive quadtree grids are able to focus on regions of interest such as pollutant fronts, while retaining economy in the total number of grid elements through selective grid re®nement. Advection is treated using Lagrangian particle tracking. Diusion is solved separately using two grid-based methods; one is by explicit ®nite dierences, the other a diusion-velocity approach. Results are given in two dimensions for pure diusion of an initially Gaussian plume, advection±diusion of the Gaussian plume in the rotating ̄ow ®eld of a forced vortex, and the transport of species in a rectangular channel with side wall boundary layers. Close agreement is achieved with analytical solutions of the advection±diusion equation and simulations from a Lagrangian random walk model. An application to Sepetiba Bay, Brazil is included to demonstrate the method with complex ̄ows and topography. Ó 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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