Axioms (Nov 2015)

On Limiting Behavior of Contaminant Transport Models in Coupled Surface and Groundwater Flows

  • Vincent J. Ervin,
  • Michaeka Kubacki,
  • William Layton,
  • Marina Moraiti,
  • Zhiyong Si,
  • Catalin Trenchea

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms4040518
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 4
pp. 518 – 529

Abstract

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There has been a surge of work on models for coupling surface-water with groundwater flows which is at its core the Stokes-Darcy problem. The resulting (Stokes-Darcy) fluid velocity is important because the flow transports contaminants. The analysis of models including the transport of contaminants has, however, focused on a quasi-static Stokes-Darcy model. Herein we consider the fully evolutionary system including contaminant transport and analyze its quasi-static limits.

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