TY - JOUR
T1 - Contamination pattern in groundwater resulting from an underground source
AU - Pistiner, Arieh
AU - Shapiro, Michael
N1 - Funding Information:
This research has been supported by the Technion V. P. R. Fund – B. and I. Green Research Fund. The authors are grateful to Dr. B. Skachek for performing computations of the contamination patterns in Figures 8–10.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - Steady distribution of oil pollutant within an aquifer, discharging from an underground source, is modeled by a two-dimensional nonlinear diffusion-convection equation. This equation describes oil transport in the immiscible zone, containing large oil blobs. This zone serves as a secondary source of contaminant in the dispersed zone, containing freely flowing oil drops. A self-similar solution is obtained for the steady saturation distribution in the immiscible zone, which is valid at distances greatly exceeding the source size across the water-flow direction. The distribution of oil saturation within the aquifer is investigated numerically and analytically as a function of the water-flow rate, pore sizes and the leakage rate of the oil-pollution source. This rate is characterized by a dimensionless parameter, dependent on the oil viscosity, aquifer permeability and the water-flow rate in the aquifer. Various flow regimes are described which yield plum-like contamination patterns. The location of the boundary between the immiscible and dispersed oil zones is calculated in terms of the source-strength parameter, water and oil properties and porous-medium structure. A closed form analytical solution is obtained in a particular case where a linear relationship exists between parameters governing advection and dispersion oil-transport rates.
AB - Steady distribution of oil pollutant within an aquifer, discharging from an underground source, is modeled by a two-dimensional nonlinear diffusion-convection equation. This equation describes oil transport in the immiscible zone, containing large oil blobs. This zone serves as a secondary source of contaminant in the dispersed zone, containing freely flowing oil drops. A self-similar solution is obtained for the steady saturation distribution in the immiscible zone, which is valid at distances greatly exceeding the source size across the water-flow direction. The distribution of oil saturation within the aquifer is investigated numerically and analytically as a function of the water-flow rate, pore sizes and the leakage rate of the oil-pollution source. This rate is characterized by a dimensionless parameter, dependent on the oil viscosity, aquifer permeability and the water-flow rate in the aquifer. Various flow regimes are described which yield plum-like contamination patterns. The location of the boundary between the immiscible and dispersed oil zones is calculated in terms of the source-strength parameter, water and oil properties and porous-medium structure. A closed form analytical solution is obtained in a particular case where a linear relationship exists between parameters governing advection and dispersion oil-transport rates.
KW - Aquifer
KW - Groundwater
KW - Oil saturation
KW - Pollution
KW - Self-similar solution
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1004264700259
DO - 10.1023/A:1004264700259
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:0031678054
SN - 0022-0833
VL - 33
SP - 15
EP - 30
JO - Journal of Engineering Mathematics
JF - Journal of Engineering Mathematics
IS - 1
ER -