INFLUENCE OF ZERO-ORDER SOURCE AND DECAY COEFFICIENTS ON THE CONCENTRATION OF CONTAMINANTS IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL CONTAMINANT FLOW

Abstract

In this article, an eigenfunctions expansion method is used in studying the behavior of two-dimensional contaminant flow problem with non-zero initial concentration. The mathematical model describing the contaminant flow is described by advection, dispersion, adsorption, first order decay and zero-order source. It is assumed that the adsorption term is modeled by Freudlich isotherm. Before the application of the eigenfunctions method, the parameter expanding method is applied on the model and the boundary conditions are transformed to the homogeneous type. Thereafter, the approximate solution of the resulting initial value problem was obtained successively. The results obtained are expressed graphically to show the effect of change in the zero-order source and decay coefficients on the concentration of the contaminants. From the analysis of the results, it was discovered that the contaminant concentration decreases with increase in the distance from the origin as the zero-order source and decay coefficient increases.