577-14 Analytical Solution of Advection-Diffusion Transport Equation using Change-of-Variable and Integral Transform.

Poster Number 439

See more from this Division: S01 Soil Physics
See more from this Session: Symposium --Measurements and Modeling of Multiphase Flow and Solute Transport: To Honor the Many Contributions of Jacob Dane: III (Posters)

Monday, 6 October 2008
George R. Brown Convention Center, Exhibit Hall E

Jesús S. Pérez Guerrero, Brazilian Nuclear Energy Commission, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Luiz Cláudio Gomes Pimentel, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Todd Skaggs, U.S. Salinity Lab., USDA-ARS, Riverside, CA and M.Th. van Genuchten, U.S. Salinity Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Riverside, CA
Abstract:
We present a formal exact solution of the linear advection-diffusion transport equation with constant coefficients for both transient and steady-state regimes. A classical mathematical substitution transforms the original advection-diffusion equation problem into an exclusively diffusive equation. The new diffusion problem is solved exactly using the Generalized Integral Transform Technique (GITT), resulting in an explicit solution.  The new solution is shown to converge faster than a hybrid analytical-numerical solution previously obtained by applying the GITT directly to the advection-diffusion transport equation.

See more from this Division: S01 Soil Physics
See more from this Session: Symposium --Measurements and Modeling of Multiphase Flow and Solute Transport: To Honor the Many Contributions of Jacob Dane: III (Posters)