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14. Studying Subsurface Density-Induced Phenomena Using Numerical Modeling

Author : Vyacheslav G. Rumynin

Published in: Subsurface Solute Transport Models and Case Histories

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

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Abstract

This chapter examines the influence of density-induced flow phenomena on solute transport in hypothetical groundwater systems taking into account different scenarios of leakage of industrial waste from surface reservoirs, as well as a scenario of upward saltwater movement from a deeper saltwater zone into the freshwater zone in response to pumping into a well using different modeling technique. Numerical modeling emerged here as one of the primary tools used to understand the most important physical processes that occur in systems containing mobile freshwater–saltwater interface. The major difficulties of density-induced subsurface transport simulation are due to the fact that the density of the water and the concentrations of chemical species dissolved in the water can vary substantially throughout the modeled area, affecting the flow pattern, and the latter, in turn, affects the change in concentration field. Thus, the flow and transport problems are coupled.

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Title: Studying Subsurface Density-Induced Phenomena Using Numerical Modeling
Author: Vyacheslav G. Rumynin
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Book: Subsurface Solute Transport Models and Case Histories
Print ISBN: 978-94-007-1305-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-94-007-1306-2

Copyright Year: 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1306-2_14