Radial Basis Function Method for 1-D and 2-D Groundwater Contaminant Transport Modeling

Authors

Jichun Li, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Y. Chen, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Darrell Pepper, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-2003

Publication Title

Computational Mechanics

Volume

32

Issue

1-2

First page number:

10

Last page number:

15

Abstract

In this paper we develop a meshless method for modeling groundwater contaminant transport. The algorithm uses collocation method with radial basis functions. Numerical results are presented for several cases: pure diffusion; advection and dispersion for continuous source; advection and dispersion for instantaneous source; advection and dispersion for patch-source. The results show that the method is very simple and accurate.

Keywords

Contaminant transport modeling; Groundwater; Groundwater – Pollution; Groundwater flow; Meshfree methods (Numerical analysis); Pollutants – Transport properties; Radial basis functions

Disciplines

Applied Mathematics | Engineering | Environmental Engineering | Hydrology | Numerical Analysis and Computation

Language

English

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Repository Citation

Li, J., Chen, Y., Pepper, D. (2003). Radial Basis Function Method for 1-D and 2-D Groundwater Contaminant Transport Modeling. Computational Mechanics, 32(1-2), 10-15.