The purpose of this model is to enable implementation of the theory of linear systems control in operational management of waste and fertiliser applications onto land, so that the underlying groundwater is protected from pollution by leachate. The state-space form of the model enables use of the extensive theory and available software on stochastic linear S)lstCms. In particular, the Kalman fil...

In the present work, the use of ball milling reactors for the remediation of lead contaminated soils was investigated. Lead immobilization was achieved without the use of additional reactants but only through the exploitation of weak transformations induced on the treated soil by mechanical loads taking place during collisions among milling media. The degree of metal immobilization was evaluate...

This study aims to characterize the physical distribution of heavy metals in kaolin soil and the chemical and structural changes in kaolinite minerals that result from electrokinetic remediation. Three bench-scale electrokinetic experiments were conducted on kaolin that was spiked with Cr(VI) alone, Ni (II) alone, and a combination of Cr(VI), Ni(II) and Cd(II) under a constant electric potentia...

Column experiments were conducted with undisturbed loamy sand soil under unsaturated conditions (around 90% saturation degree) to investigate the retention of surfactant stabilized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) with various input concentration (Co), flow velocity, and ionic strength (IS), and the remobilization of AgNPs by changing the cation type and IS. The mobility of AgNPs in soil was enhanc...

For a typical NRZ pulse propagating in existing normally dispersive bers, we provide a uniform description of the optical transmission. There are three distinct regimes of the governing nonlinear Schrr odinger equation: the fully nonlinear dispersive regime (ND), which covers a small region of the pulse; and two limiting asymptotic regimes-nonlinear, weakly dispersive (ZD) (for the bulk of the ...

We show that a collection of two-level atoms in an optical cavity beyond the rotating wave approximation and in the dispersive-adiabatic and non-dispersive adiabatic regime constitutes a nonlinear medium and is capable of generating squeezed state of light. It is found that squeezing produced in the non-dispersive adiabatic regime is significantly high compared to that produced in the dispersiv...

The evolution, through linear dispersion, of piecewise constant periodic initial data leads to surprising quantized structures at rational times, and fractal, nondifferentiable profiles at irrational times. Similar phenomena have been observed in optics and quantum mechanics, and lead to intriguing connections with exponential sums arising in number theory. Ramifications of these observations f...

Ill posed linear and nonlinear initial value problems may be stabilized, that it converted to to well posed initial value problems, by the addition of purely nonscalar linear dispersive terms. This is a stability analog of the Turing instability. This idea applies to systems of quasilinear Schrödinger equations from nonlinear optics.

The composition of fuels, mixed-solvent wastes and other contaminants that find their way into the subsurface are frequently chemically complex. The dispersion and diffusion characteristics of multicomponent solutions in soil have rarely been compared to equivalent single-solute systems. The purpose of this work was to examine the diffusive and dispersive transport of singleand multi-component ...

Trees can take up and assimilate contaminants from the soil, subsurface, and groundwater. Contaminants in the transpiration stream can become bound or incorporated into the annual rings formed in trees of the temperate zones. The chemical analysis of precisely dated tree rings, called dendrochemistry, can be used to interpret past plant interactions with contaminants. This investigation demonst...