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dc.contributor.authorWarner, G. C.
dc.coverage.spatial85 p.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-07T11:01:26Z
dc.date.available2018-06-07T11:01:26Z
dc.date.issued1997
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/13801
dc.description.abstractThis thesis considers the large-time behaviour of the equation (∂(u+uᵖ) )/( ∂t ) + Q(t) ∂u/( ∂x) = ∂²u/∂x² p>0, r≥ -1 With 0 ≤ 𝓍 < ∞, t ≥ 0 and Q (t) ~ tʳ, t  ∞. This equation models, after suitable scalings are introduced, the one-dimensional flow of a solute through a porous medium with the solute undergoing adsorption by the solid matrix. We consider two models for the contaminant input at 𝓍= 0, the first being continuous input and the second being an initial pulse of contaminant which terminates after a finite time. Thus the total mass of the solute both adsorbed and in solution is considered to be dependent on time. It is found that the asymptotic solution depends crucially on both p and r. In finding the asymptotic solution, a similarity variable is introduced which for p ≥ 1 may involve spatial translation. We also have that when p < 1 interfaces appear and hence we have bounded support, whilst for p≥1 we do not. The principal role of r is to determine the balance between diffusion and convection effects. In the continuous input case this balance is independent of p, whilst in the pulse problem p is also involved in determining the balance.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrewsen
dc.subject.lccQA379.W2
dc.subject.lcshBoundary value problemsen
dc.titleA variable input boundary problem in contaminant transporten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnameMPhil Master of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US


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