FEMWASTE: a Finite-Element Model of Waste transport through porous saturated-unsaturated media
A two-dimensional transient model for the transport of dissolved constituents through porous media originally developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been expanded and modified. Transport mechanisms include: convection, hydrodynamic dispersion, chemical sorption, and first-order decay. Implementation of quadrilateral iso-parametric finite elements, bilinear spatial interpolation, asymmetric weighting functions, several time-marching techniques, and Gaussian elimination are employed in the numerical formulation. A comparative example is included to demonstrate the difference between the new and original models. Results from 12 alternative numerical schemes of the new model are compared. The waste transport model is compatible with the water flow model developed at ORNL for predicting convective Darcy velocities in porous media which may be partially saturated.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-26
- OSTI ID:
- 6552234
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL-5601; TRN: 81-007227
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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COMPUTER CODES
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RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION
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CONVECTION
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RADIOACTIVE WASTES
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POLLUTANTS
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