Analytical models of contaminant transport in coastal aquifers |
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| Authors: | Diogo T Bolster Daniel M Tartakovsky Marco Dentz |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA;2. Department of Geotechnical Engineering and Geosciences, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain |
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| Abstract: | The Henry formulation, which couples subsurface flow and salt transport via a variable-density flow formulation, can be used to evaluate the extent of sea water intrusion into coastal aquifers. The coupling gives rise to nontrivial flow patterns that are very different from those observed in inland aquifers. We investigate the influence of these flow patterns on the transport of conservative contaminants in a coastal aquifer. The flow is characterized by two dimensionless parameters: the Péclet number, which compares the relative effects of advective and dispersive transport mechanisms, and a coupling parameter, which describes the importance of the salt water boundary on the flow. We focus our attention on two regimes – low and intermediate Péclet number flows. Two transport scenarios are solved analytically by means of a perturbation analysis. The first, a natural attenuation scenario, describes the flushing of a contaminant from a coastal aquifer by clean fresh water, while the second, a contaminant spill scenario, considers an isolated point source. |
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| Keywords: | Henry problem Analytical solution Seawater intrusion Variable density flow |
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