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...

Turbulent dispersion of passive scalar quantities has been extensively studied in wind tunnel settings, where the flow is carefully conditioned using flow straighteners and grids. Much less is known about turbulent dispersion in the "unconditioned" flows generated by fans that are ubiquitous in indoor environments, despite the importance of these flows to pathogen and contaminant transport. Her...

We analyse dispersion of contaminants in turbulent boundary layer using centre manifold technique. The method describes long-term asymptotics of the contaminant concentration as it becomes spread across the entire layer and is weakly distorted by the velocity shear. The dispersion is investigated in two cases: (a) logarithmic and (b) power velocity profile across the layer according to a tradit...

This paper deals with numerical study of semi-finite incompressible flow of air over two blocks with different heights in the presence of a condensing-source, dispensing- contaminant in the flow, in both steady and unsteady states. The numerical solution of governing PDE equations are constructed by a finite-volume method applied on structured grid arrangement. The effects of air flow velocity,...

In the present paper Haar wavelet method is implemented on advectiondispersion equation representing one dimensional contaminant transport through a porous medium. Non uniform flow is considered by assuming velocity and dispersion varying with time as an exponentially increasing function. Expressing the Haar wavelets in advection-dispersion equation into Haar series provides the main advantage ...

Fully implicit, fully coupled techniques are developed for simulating multiphase flow with nonequilibrium mass transfer between phases, with application to groundwater contaminant flow and transport. Numerical issues which are addressed include: use of MUSCL or Van Leer flux limiters to reduce numerical dispersion, use of full or approximate Jacobian for flux limiter methods, and variable subst...