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The henry problem: New semianalytical solution for velocity-dependent dispersion

Fahs, M ; Sharif University of Technology | 2016

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1002/2016WR019288
  3. Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2016
  4. Abstract:
  5. A new semianalytical solution is developed for the velocity-dependent dispersion Henry problem using the Fourier-Galerkin method (FG). The integral arising from the velocity-dependent dispersion term is evaluated numerically using an accurate technique based on an adaptive scheme. Numerical integration and nonlinear dependence of the dispersion on the velocity render the semianalytical solution impractical. To alleviate this issue and to obtain the solution at affordable computational cost, a robust implementation for solving the nonlinear system arising from the FG method is developed. It allows for reducing the number of attempts of the iterative procedure and the computational cost by iteration. The accuracy of the semianalytical solution is assessed in terms of the truncation orders of the Fourier series. An appropriate algorithm based on the sensitivity of the solution to the number of Fourier modes is used to obtain the required truncation levels. The resulting Fourier series are used to analytically evaluate the position of the principal isochlors and metrics characterizing the saltwater wedge. They are also used to calculate longitudinal and transverse dispersive fluxes and to provide physical insight into the dispersion mechanisms within the mixing zone. The developed semianalytical solutions are compared against numerical solutions obtained using an in house code based on variant techniques for both space and time discretization. The comparison provides better confidence on the accuracy of both numerical and semianalytical results. It shows that the new solutions are highly sensitive to the approximation techniques used in the numerical code which highlights their benefits for code benchmarking
  6. Keywords:
  7. Code benchmarking ; Density-driven flow ; Semianalytical solution ; Velocity-dependent dispersion ; Benchmarking ; Codes (symbols) ; Dispersions ; Fourier transforms ; Galerkin methods ; Iterative methods ; Space time codes ; Velocity ; Approximation techniques ; Density driven flows ; Dispersion mechanisms ; Fourier-Galerkin methods ; Henry problem ; Numerical integrations ; Velocity-dependent ; Fourier series
  8. Source: Water Resources Research ; Volume 52, Issue 9 , 2016 , Pages 7382-7407 ; 00431397 (ISSN)
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