Finite-Element Modeling of One-Component Solute Transport

This chapter presents four basic solute transport models. Four basic flow models were presented in the third chapter of a companion book (Yeh, 1999). Based on these eight basic models, many more complicated models could be constructed. Each transport and its corresponding flow model form a pair of transport and flow models. Each transport model can be used as a stand-alone model to simulate contaminant transport using known flow fields from either measurements or simulations by other flow models. It can also be used in tandem with its corresponding flow model to simulate contaminant transport with the flow model creating hydrological variables.