Flux-limiting techniques for simulation of pollutant transport in porous media: Application to groundwater management

  • Authors:
  • Hassan Smaoui;Lahcen Zouhri;Abdellatif Ouahsine

  • Affiliations:
  • Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers (E.N.S.A.M.), Département des Mathématiques & Informatique, B.P. 4024, Beni M'Hamed 50000 Meknèès, Morocco;UMR CNRS 8110, Processus et Billans des Domaines Sédimentaires, UFR des Sciences de la Terre, Université de Lille I, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France;Laboratoire Roberval, UMR CNRS 6066, UTC-Centre de Recherche Royallieu, B.P. 20529, 60206 Compiègne cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The objective of this work is to present a numerical study of contaminant migration in saturated porous media. For this purpose, the advection-diffusion equation describing the evolution of contaminant plumes in a 2D horizontal aquifer (Atlantic margin, Rharb Basin of Morocco) is discretized employing a Total Variation Diminishing method (TVD), which provides an efficient way to eliminate spurious numerical oscillations. The stationary velocity field is computed by the ModFlow code using the finite difference method discretization. The initial concentration needed to determine the solution was specified using data from well samples. Numerical examples showing the implementation of the algorithm to describe groundwater contamination by the chloride in the aquifer are presented. This high accuracy method (TVD) constitutes an approach in the water management and allows us to envisage risks of pollution and to manage the groundwater resource from the durable development perspective.