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Title: A 3D Finite Element Analysis of Incompressible Fluid Flow and Contaminant Transport Through a Porous Landfill
Authors: Adegun
Komolafe
Hussein
Oyekale
Keywords: 3D-numerical
Simulation
Contaminant
Porous Media
Landfill
Groundwater safety
Municipal waste management
Issue Date: 2014
Publisher: Journal of Engineering Science and Technology
Series/Report no.: Vol.9;No.4
Abstract: The paper investigated the flow of incompressible fluid and contaminant transport through a Porous Landfill using a numerical technique. A threedimensional finite element analysis technique was adopted for the solution. The problem was based on the Darcy’s Law and the Advection-Dispersion equation. The solutions of the Darcy’s and Advection-Dispersion equations were generated using Finite Element Analysis Software known as COMSOL Multiphysics. This simulation tool tracked the contaminant transport in the Landfill for 360 days at 10 days interval. It first modeled steady-state fluid flow by employing the Darcy’s Law Application Mode and then followed up with a transient solute-transport simulation by employing the Solute-Transport Application Mode from the Earth Science Module of COMSOL. The solution results obtained from this model were found to be in close agreement with reallife data obtained at the 130- million ton Bukit Tagar Mega Sanitary Landfill site, Selangor near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This showed that the model can effectively predict the trends in the distributions of pollutants from a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill into nearby land and water sources. The model is thus applicable to the issues of environmental protection and safety of groundwater.
URI: http://repository.fuoye.edu.ng/handle/123456789/1033
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