Analytical solutions of the advection-dispersion equation and related models are indispensable for predicting or analyzing contaminant transport processes in streams and rivers, as well as in other surface water bodies. Many useful analytical solutions originated in disciplines other than surface-water hydrology, are scattered across the literature, and not always well known. In this two-part s...

Successful prediction of groundwater flow and solute transport through highly heterogeneous aquifers has remained elusive due to the limitations of methods to characterize hydraulic conductivity (K) and generate realistic stochastic fields from such data. As a result, many studies have suggested that the classical advective-dispersive equation (ADE) cannot reproduce such transport behavior. Her...

Combining multi-Parametric Sensitivity Analysis (MPSA) with stream transport modeling is proposed to determine the relative importance of physical and biogeochemical processes controlling natural attenuation of contaminants. The MPSA is based on a large number of Monte-Carlo simulations to identify the sensitive parameters over a broad range of each parameter. This combined approach is applied ...

We determined that the spatial heterogeneity in aquifer properties governing the reactive transport of volatile organic contaminants is defined by the arrangement of lithofacies. We measured permeability (k) and perchloroethene sorption distribution coefficient (Kd) for lithofacies that we delineated for samples from the Canadian Forces Base Borden Aquifer. We compiled existing data and collect...

Properties of both chemical contaminants and polymers can impact contaminant diffusivity and solubility in new and aged polyethylene materials for pipes and geomembranes. Diffusivity, solubility, polymer and chemical properties were measured for thirteen contaminants and six polyethylene materials that were new and/or aged in chlorinated water. Tree regression was used to select variables, and ...

Firstand second-order reliability methods (FORM and SORM) are applied as alternatives to the Monte Carlo simulation method in the probabilistic analysis of groundwater contaminant transport and remediation. A two-dimensional finite-element model is interfaced with a reliability analysis program to account for uncertainty in aquifer media. Hydraulic conductivity is modeled as a spatial random fi...

Papers published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions are under open-access review for the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Abstract Streambed sediments can act as long-term storage zones for organic contaminants originating from the stream water. Until the early 1990s, the small man-made stream, subject of our study, in the industrial area of Bitterfeld (Germany), was ...

In this paper, we propose an operator splitting method for convectiondominated transport equations with nonlinear reactions, which model groundwater contaminant biodegradation and many other interesting applications. The proposed method can be efficiently implemented by applying software integration techniques such as dynamical link library (DLL) or component object model (COM). Numerical resul...

We consider a nonlinear system of parabolic equations describing the transport of contaminant in porous media. For this system travelling wave solutions are known to exist. We prove existence and uniqueness of general solutions of the system and convergence to travelling waves.

In this paper we show that the Wavelet-Galerkin method is a very effective tool in numerically solving contaminant transport equation. The approach is applied to a number of examples and numerical results are given. The numerical results demonstrate the reliability and efficiency of using the Wavelet-Galerkin method to solve such problems.