Fractional-Fractal Modeling of Filtration-Consolidation Processes in Saline Saturated Soils

Abstract

To study the peculiarities of anomalous consolidation processes in saturated porous (soil) media in the conditions of salt transfer, we present a new mathematical model developed on the base of the fractional-fractal approach that allows considering temporal non-locality of transfer processes in media of fractal structure. For the case of the finite thickness domain with permeable boundaries, a finite-difference technique for numerical solution of the corresponding one-dimensional non-linear boundary value problem is developed. The paper also presents a fractional-fractal model of a filtration-consolidation process in clay soils of fractal structure saturated with salt solutions. An analytical solution is found for the corresponding one-dimensional boundary value problem in the domain of finite thickness with permeable upper and impermeable lower boundaries.

Keywords

• mathematical modeling
• filtration-consolidation dynamics
• soil media
• salt transfer
• fractional-fractal mathematical models
• boundary value problems