An Analytical Solution of Effect of Water Content on Solute Transport in Saturated and Unsaturated Porous Media

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An Analytical Solution of Effect of Water Content on Solute Transport in Saturated and Unsaturated Porous Media

Praveen Kumar M.1

1Department of Mathematics,

KS School of Engineering & Management, Bangalore,Karnataka

India.

Shobankumar D M.2

2Department of Mathematics, Maharanis Science College for Women, Bangalore,karnataka

India.

Dattatreya Hegde3 3Department of Mathematics, Govt. First Grade College, Sirsi, Karnataka

India.

  1. R. Sudheendra4

    4Department of Mathematics,

  2. John Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka

    India

    Abstract:- Most of the researchers use the coordinate transformation (x – ut) in order to evaluate the equation for advection-dispersion of a moving fluid in porous media. Further, the boundary conditions C = 0 at x = and C = C0 at x = for t 0 are used, which results in a symmetrical concentration distribution. The objective of this paper is to find the solution of differential equation in longitudinal direction that avoids this transformation, thus giving rise to an asymmetrical concentration distribution. It is then shown that the solution approaches that given by symmetrical boundary conditions, provided the dispersion coefficient D is small and the region near the source will not be considered. The solution has been obtained for the dispersion model of longitudinal mixing with variable coefficients in a finite length initially solute free domain. In the beginning, homogeneous domain is studied for dependent advection-dispersion along with uniform flow. The solution has been obtained for the uniform velocity by considering spatially dependent due to the heterogeneity of the domain and the dispersion proportional to the square of the velocity. The velocity is linearly interpolated and small increment along the finite domain. The input condition has been considered continuous of uniform and of increasing nature both. The solutions are obtained for both the domains by using Duhamels theorem and integral solution technique. The new independent space and time variables processes has been introduced. The effects of the dependency of dispersion with time and the heterogeneity of the domain on the solute transport are studied separately with the help of graphs.

    Key words: Advection, dispersion, adsorption, Integral transforms, Ficks law,Duhamels theorem,

    1. INTRODUCTION

      In recent years, considerable interest and attention have been directed to dispersion phenomena in flow through porous media. Scheidegger (1954), deJong (1958), and Day (1956) have presented statistical means to establish the concentration distribution and the dispersion coefficient. Advectiondispersion equation explains the solute transport due to combined effect of convection and dispersion in a medium. It is a partial differential equation of parabolic type, derived on the principle of conservation of mass using diffusion equation. Due to the growing

      surface and subsurface hydro environment degradation, the advectiondiffusion equation has drawn significant attention of hydrologists, civil engineers and mathematical modelers. Its analytical/numerical solutions along with an initial condition and two boundary conditions help to understand the contaminant or pollutant concentration distribution behavior through an open medium like air, rivers, lakes and porous medium like aquifer, on the basis of which remedial processes to reduce or eliminate the damages may be enforced. It has wide applications in other disciplines too, like soil physics, petroleum engineering, chemical engineering and biosciences.

      In the initial works while obtaining the analytical solutions of dispersion problems in ideal conditions, the basic approach was to reduce the advectiondispersion equation into a diffusion equation by eliminating the convective term(s). It was done either by introducing moving co- ordinates (Ogata and Banks 1961; Harleman and Rumer 1963; Bear 1972; Guvanasen and Volker 1983; Aral and Liao 1996; Marshal et al 1996) or by introducing another dependent variable (Banks and Ali 1964 Ogata 1970; Lai and Jurinak 1971; Marino 1974 and Al-Niami and Rushton 1977). Then Laplace transformation technique has been used to get desired solutions.

      Some of the one-dimensional solutions have been given (Tracy 1995, Sudheendra 2011) by transforming the non- linear advectiondiffusion equation into a linear one for specific forms of the moisture content vs. pressure head and relative hydraulic conductivity vs. pressure head curves which allow both two-dimensional and three-dimensional solutions has been derived. A method has been given to solve the transport equations for a kinetically adsorbing solute in a porous medium with spatially varying velocity field and dispersion coefficients (Van Kooten 1996, Sudheendra 2012).

      Later it has been shown that some large subsurface formations exhibit variable dispersivity properties, either as a function of time or as a function of distance (Matheron and deMarsily 1980; Sposito et al 1986; Gelhar et al 1992). Analytical solutions were developed for describing the transport of dissolved substances in heterogeneous semi

      compared with the analytical solution obtained in the previous cases.

    2. TEMPORALLY DEPENDENT DISPERSION ALONG UNIFORM FLOW

      Because mass is conserved, the governing differential equation is determined to be

      infinite porous media with a distance dependent dispersion

      C D (x, t) C u (x, t) C

      of exponential nature along the uniform flow (Yates 1990, 1992). The temporal moment solution for one dimensional advective-dispersive solute transport with linear

      t x x

      (1)

      equilibrium sorption and first order degradation for time pulse sources has been applied to analyze soil column experimental data (Pang et al 2003). An analytical approach was developed for non-equilibrium transport of reactive solutes in the unsaturated zone during an infiltrationredistribution cycle (Severino and Indelman 2004, Sudheendra 2014).

      The solute is transported by advection and obeys linear kinetics. Analytical solutions were presented for solute transport in rivers including the effects of transient storage and first order decay (Smedt 2006, Sudheendra 2012). Pore flow velocity was assumed to be a non-divergence, free, unsteady and non-stationary random function of space and time for ground water contaminant transport in a heterogeneous media (Sirin 2006). A two-dimensional semi-analytical solution was presented to analyze stream aquifer interactions in a coastal aquifer where groundwater level responds to tidal effects (Kim et al 2007).

      where C is solute concentration at position x along the longitudinal direction at time t, D is dispersion coefficient and u is the average velocity of fluid or superficial velocity. To study the temporally dependent solute dispersion of a uniform input concentration of continuous nature in an initially solute free finite domain, we consider

      D(x, t) D0 f mt and u (x, t) u0

      (2)

      When m is a coefficient whose dimension is inverse of the time variable. Thus f(mt) is an expression in non- dimensional variable (mt). The expression of f(mt) = 1 for m = 0 or t = 0. The former case represents the uniform solute dispersion and the latter case represents the initial dispersion. The coefficients D0 and u0 in equation (2) may be defined as initial dispersion coefficient and uniform flow velocity, respectively. Thus the partial differential equation (1) along with initial condition and boundary conditons may be written as:

      A more direct method is presented here for solving the

      C

      2C C

      differential equation governing the process of dispersion. It

      t D0 f

      mt x2

      u0 x

      (3)

      is assumed that the porous medium is homogeneous and isotropic and that no mass transfer occurs between the solid and liquid phases. It is assumed also that the solute transport, across any fixed plane, due to microscopic

      velocity variations in the flow tubes, may be quantitatively

      Initially, saturated flow of fluid of concentration, C = 0, takes place in the medium. At t = 0, the concentration of the plane source is instantaneously changed to C = C0. Thus, the appropriate boundary conditions are

      expressed as the product of a dispersion coefficient and the concentration gradient. The flow in the medium is assumed to be unidirectional and the average velocity is taken to be constant throughout the length of the flow field. In this

      C(x, 0) 0

      t

      t

      C(0, t) C0 1 e

      C(, t) 0

      x 0

      t 0 . (4)

      t 0

      paper, the solutions are obtained for two solute dispersion problems in a longitudinal finite length, respectively. In the first problem time dependent solute dispersion of increasing or decreasing nature along a uniform flow through a homogeneous domain is studied. In the second problem the medium is considered heterogeneous, hence the velocity is considered dependent on position variable. The velocity is linearly interpolated in position variable

      The problem then is to characterize the concentration as a function of x and t. where the input condition is assumed at the origin and a second type or flux type homogeneous condition is assumed. C0 is initial concentration. To reduce equation (3) to a more familiar form, we take

      u0 x

      2D0 f mt

      which represents a small increment in the velocity from

      C(x, t) (x, t) exp

      u 2 t

      k 1 nt

      one end to the other end of the domain. This expression

      0 d

      contains a parameter to represent a change in heterogeneous from one medium to other medium. Dispersion is assumed proportional to square of velocity. In each problem the domain is initially solute free. The input

      4D0 f mt n

      Substituting equation (5) into equation (3) gives

      (5)

      condition is of uniform and varying nature, respectively.

      2

      Numerical solution has also been obtained for the case in which dispersion varies linearly with velocity and has been

      t D0 f

      mt x 2

      (6)

      The initial and boundary conditions (3) transform to

      (0, t)

      C0 1

      (0, t)

      C0 1

      t

      u2t k 1 nt

      d

      t

      0

      d

      t

      0

      x 2 2

      exp

      exp

      0

      0

      4D0 f mt n

      2 D f (mt) t

      e

      e

      1 erf (

      1 erf (

      )

      )

      e d

      e d

      (x, 0) 0

      (, t) 0

      x 0

      t 0

      0 x

      2 Dt

      (7)

      It is thus required that equation (6) may be solved for a time dependent influx of the fluid at x = 0. The solution of equation (5) may be obtained readily by use of Duhamels theorem (Carslaw and Jaeger, 1947).

      Utilizing Duhamels theorem, the solution of the problem with initial concentration zero and the time dependent surface condition at x =0 is

      2 2

      2 2

      t

      ( ) e d d (10)

      C F x, y, z, t

      0 t

      x

      If is the solution of the diffusion

      equation for semi-infinite media in which the initial concentration is zero and its surface is maintained at concentration unity, then the solution of the problem in

      which the surface is maintained at temperature t is

      2 D0 f (mt )t

      2

      2

      Since eis a continuous function, it is possible to differentiate under the integral, which gives

      t 2 e 2 d

      C t F x, y, z, t d

      t x

      0

      This theorem is used principally for heat conduction

      2 D0 f (mt )t

      x

      x 2

      problems, but the above has been specialized to fit this exp

      specific case of interest. Consider now the problem in

      2 D

      f (mt) t 32

      4D

      f (mt) t

      which initial concentration is zero and the boundary is 0

      maintained at concentration unity. The boundary conditions are

      0

      (11)

      (x, 0) 0

      x 0

      The solution to the problem is

      0

      0

      x t

      x 2 d

      (0, t) 1

      (, t) 0

      t 0

      t 0

      (8)

      0

      0

      2 D0

      f (mt)

      exp 4D

      f (mt) t t 32

      (12)

      The problem is readily solved by application of the Laplace transform which is defined as

      Lx, t x, p e pt x, t dt

      (9)

      Putting

      2 D0

      can be written as

      x

      f (mt) t

      then the equation (12)

      e

      e

      0 2

      x 2

      2

      Hence, if equation (6) is multiplied by e ptand integrated

      t 4D

      f (mt) 2 d

      term by term it is reduced to an ordinary differential equation

      x 0

      2 D0 f (mt ) t

      (13)

      d 2

      dx 2 D

      p .

      f (mt)

      Since

      u 2 t

      t

      t

      k 1 nt

      0

      0 d

      0 d

      The solution of the above equation is

      t C0 1 e exp the

      4D0 f mt n

      C1

      eqx C

      eqx where, q p .

      d

      particular solution of the problem may be written as

      2C 1 e t u 2 t k 1 nt

      2

      2

      The boundary condition as

      x requires that C2 = 0

      x, t 0

      exp 0 d

      and boundary condition at

      x 0

      requires that C 1

      4D0 f (mt) n

      1 p

      2 2

      thus the particular solution of the Laplace transformed

      exp 2

      d exp 2

      d

      equation is

      0

      0

      1 eqx

      0

      2

      2

      (14)

      p

      The inversion of the above function is given in any table of Laplace transforms. The result is

      where,

      2

      x

      D0 f (mt) t

      and

      u0 x .

      4D0 f (mt)

      Evaluation of the integral solution

      I 2 e2

      e 2 d e2

      exp z

      2

      dz

      The integration of the first term of equation (14) gives

      /

      z

      2

      2

      2

      exp 2 d

      e2

      (15)

      Noting that

      0 2

      2 2

      For convenience the second integral may be expressed on

      exzp2dzexpz2

      terms of error function (Horenstein, 1945), because this

      /

      z /

      z

      function is well tabulated.

      Substitution into equation (10) gives

      Noting that

      2

      2

      2

      2

      2 2

      2 2

      I e

      2

      e 2

      d e2

      e 2

      d . (19)

      2

      The second integral of equation (14) may be written as

      Thus, equation (14) may be expressed as

      I exp 2

      2

      d

      2C 1 e t u 2 t k 1 nt

      2

      x, t 0 exp d

      0

      1 2

      2

      2

      2

      4D0 f (mt)

      n (20)

      e exp

      d e

      exp

      d

      2 0

      0

      e 2 1

      e 2 d e 2

      e 2 d

      (16)

      Since the method of reducing integral to a tabulated

      2

      2

      2

      2

      function is the same for both integrals in the right side of

      However, by definition,

      equation (16), only the first term is considered. Let

      e2 e 2 d e2 erfc

      z and adding and subtracting

      2

      2

      e2 exp z dz

      Also,

      z

      2

      2

      The integral may be expressed as

      e e

      d

      e 2 erfc .

      2

      2

      I1 e2 exp

      d

      Writing equation (20) in terms of error functions, we get

      0

      C 1 e t u 2 t

      k 1 nt

      x, t

      0 exp

      d

      2

      2

      2 4D0 f (mt)

      n (21)

      e2 1

      2 exp

      z dz e2 exp

      • z dz

      / z

      z

      /

      z

      2

      2

      (17) e

      erfc e

      erfc

      Further, let, z in the first term of the above

      Thus, Substitution into equation (5) the solution is

      z

      Cx, t 1 4

      C 1 et 2 erfc e

      erfc

      equation, then

      2

      2

      2 2

      0

      I1 e

      e d e

      exp z z

      dz .

      Re-substituting for and gives

      x ut

      (18) erfc

      2

      2

      0

      0

      Cx, t 1

      D0 f (mt) t

      Similar evaluation of the second integral of equation (16)

      C 1 e t 2

      ux x ut

      gives

      exp D

      erfc

      f (mt) 2

      D f (mt) t

      0

      0

      2

      2

      2

      2

      Re-substitute the value of the u in terms of u , we get

      I 2 e

      exp

      z dz e2

      exp

      z dz . 0

      /

      z

      /

      z

      x u0t

      erfc 2 D

      f (mt) t

      Cx, t 1 0

      Again substituting

      • z into the first term, the

      C 1 et 2

      u x

      x u t

      0 0 0

      z exp D

      f (mt) erfc 2 D

      f (mt) t

      result is

      0

      0

      (22)

      where boundaries are symmetrical the solution of the

      x u 1 axt

      problem is given by the first term the equation (22). The

      erfc 0

      (25)

      second term is equation (22) is thus due to the asymmetric

      C x, t 1

      2 1 ax

      D0 t

      boundary imposed in the more general problem. However,

      C0 2

      u0 1 ax x

      x u0 1 axt

      2

      2

      exp erfc

      0

      0

      it should be noted also that if a point a great distance away from the source is considered, then it is possible to

      approximate the boundary condition by C,tC0,

      which leads to a symmetrical solution.

      D 1 ax 2 1 ax D0 t

      A plot of logarithmic probability graph of the above solution is given for various values of the dimensionless groupD0 u0x. The figure shows that as becomes

      small the concentration distribution becomes nearly

    3. SPATIALLY DEPENDENT DISPERSION ALONG

      NON-UNIFORM FLOW

      symmetrical about the value = 1 (i.e.,

      u0 t

      x).

      The heterogeneity of porous domain was defined by scale dependent dispersion and flow through the medium has been considered uniform Yates (1992) but the flow velocity may also depend upon position variable in case the domain is heterogeneous. Zoppou and Knight (1997) have considered the velocity as u x , and the solute

      dispersion proportional to square of velocity, i.e., as

      0

      0

      D x2 ; in a semi-infinite domain x x . But

      However, for large values of asymmetrical concentration distributions become noticeable. This indicates that for large value of D or small values of distance x the contribution of the second term in equation (25) becomes significant as approaches unity.

    4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

      Concentration values are evaluated from the four analytical solutions discussed in a finite domain at times t

      these expressions do not reflect real variations due to (years) = 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0, for input values C0 = 1.0, u0

      heterogeneity of the medium because as x , dispersion and velocity also become too large. In fact the variation in velocity due to heterogeneity should be small so that the velocity at each position satisfies the Darcys law in case the medium is porous or satisfies the laminar condition of the flow in a non-porous medium, an essential conditions for the velocity parameter, u in the advection- diffusion equation. This factor is taken care of in the present work and velocity is linearly interpolated in position variable such that it increases from a value u0 at x

      = 0 to a value 1 bu0 at x = L, where b may be a real

      constant. Thus

      u(x,t) u0 (1 ax) , (23a) Where a L, is the parameter accounting for the heterogeneity of the medium. It should be small so that the increase in velocity is of small order. Solute dispersion is assumed proportional to square of the velocity so we consider

      = 0.11 (km/year), D0 = 50 (km2/year). Figures 1 represents temporal dependent concentration dispersion pattern of uniform input and input of increasing nature, respectively along a uniform flow through a homogeneous medium, described by the analytical solutions, equation (22), respectively. In figure 1, the uniform input concentration value is 1.0 at all times and the concentration value at x = 0 increases with time. Thus the respective input boundary conditions are satisfied. In the figure the dotted curves represents the solutions for an expression f(mt) = exp(mt) which is of decreasing nature. In the figures the solid curve represents the respective solutions at t = 1.0 (year), for another expression f(mt) = exp(mt), which is of increasing nature. It may be observed that in case of uniform input the concentration value at a particular position is higher for the latter expression of f(mt) than that for the former expression of f(mt). The difference increases with the distance along the domain. But in case of an input concentraton of increasing nature its value is less for increasing nature of f(mt) than that for decreasing nature of

      0

      0

      D(x,t) D (1 ax)2

      (23b)

      f(mt). This trend is of diminishing nature up to x = 2.0,

      As ax is a non-dimensional term hence D0 and u0 are dispersion coefficient and velocity, respectively at the origin (x = 0) of the medium. The domain is assumed initially solute free. An input concentration is assumed at the origin and a flux type homogeneous condition is assume at the other end of the domain. Then advection- diffusion equation assumes the form

      beyond which the trend reverses. For all the curves drawn in figure 1, a value m(year)1 = 1.0 is chosen. Both the analytical solutions of section 2 may be solved using other expressions of f(mt) which satisfy the conditions stated at the outset of the section 2.

      C

      t

      D0 1

      2C

      2

      2

      ax x2

      u0 1

      axC

      x

      (24)

      It is further reduced into a partial differential equation with constant coefficients by using a transformation. Ultimately we use the same initial and boundary conditions to solve the above dispersion problem for dependent dispersion non-uniform. The procedure is same as solved in the earlier case. Then the desired solution may be written as

      Figure 1: Temporal dependent solute dispersion along uniform flow of uniform input

      described by solution (equation 22).

      Figure 2: Break through curve for dispersion along with uniform flow.

      Figure 3: Spatially dependent solute dispersion along with non-uniform flow input described by solution (equation 25).

      The distribution is symmetrical for values of x chosen some distance from the source. An example of break through curves obtained for dispersion in a cylindrical vertical column is shown as Figure 2. The theoretical curve was obtained by neglecting the second term of equation (22).

      Figure 3 gives the concentration values evaluated from analytical solutions (equations 25) for spatially dependent dispersion of uniform input and input of increasing nature, respectively, along non-uniform flow, through an heterogeneous domain. The solid curves in figure 3 represent the solution (equation 30) in which a value a =

      1.0 (km1) is taken. Using expressions it may be evaluated that due to the heterogeneity of the medium, the velocity u varies from a value of 0.11 (km/year) to a value of 0.22 (km/year) and dispersion D varies from a value of 0.21 (km/year) to a value of 0.42 (km/year), along the domain 0

      x(km) 1. This figure also shows the effect of heterogeneity on the dispersion pattern. A dotted curve is drawn for the value a = 0.1 (km1). It may be observed that the concentration values evaluated from the solution (equation 25) along a medium of lesser heterogeneity (which introduces lesser variation in velocity and dispersion along the column), are slightly higher than those at the respective positions of a medium of higher heterogeneity, near the origin but decrease at faster rate as the other end of the medium is approached. This comparison is done at t = 2.0 (year). This value is chosen to ensure that the factor (u0 aD0) in condition remains positive for the values chosen for u0 and D0. The distribution is symmetrical for values of x chosen some distance from the source. A break through curve is obtained for dispersion in for different depth as shown in Figure 4. The theoretical curve was obtained by neglecting the second term of equation (25).

    5. CONCLUSIONS

Consideration of the governing differential equation for dispersion in flow through porous media give rise to a solution that is not symmetrical about x = u0 t for large values of . Experimental evidence, however, reveals that D0 is small. This indicates that, unless the region close to the source is considered, the concentration distribution is

approximately symmetrical. Theoretically,

C 1

C0 2

only

Figure 4: Break through curve for dispersion along with non-uniform flow.

as 0; however, only errors of the order of magnitude of experimental errors are introduced in the ordinary experiments if a symmetrical solution is assumed

The solution is obtained for one dimensional advection diffusion equation with variable coefficients along with two set of boundary conditions in an initially solute free finite domain have been obtained in two cases:

  1. temporal dependent dispersion along with uniform flow through homogeneous medium and

  2. spatially dependent dispersion along non-uniform flow through heterogeneous medium which solute dispersion is assumed proportional to the square of velocity.

The application of a new transformation which introduces another space variable, on the advection-diffusion equation makes it possible to use Laplace transformation technique in getting the solution. Numerical solution has been obtained using a two-level explicit finite difference scheme. The respective analytical and numerical solutions have also been compared and very good agreement between the two has been found. The analytical solution of the second problem in case of uniform input has been compared with the numerical solution of same problem but assuming dispersion varying with velocity. Such analytical solutions may serve as tools in validating numerical solutions in more realistic dispersion problems facilitating to assess the transport of pollutants solute concentration away from its source along a flow through soil medium, through aquifers and through oil reservoirs.

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