Environmental dispersivity in free-water-surface-effect dominated wetland: multi-scale analysis

Abstract

Distinct from the case with width-dominated shallow wetland flows, the longitudinal evolution of contaminant concentration in the most-typical pattern of wetland as dominated by free-water-surface-effect is characterized by a multi-scale analysis in the present study. An environmental dispersion model for the evolution of the mean concentration is deduced as an extension of Taylor's classical formulation by Mei’s multi-scale analysis. Corresponding environmental dispersivity is found identical to that determined by the method of concentration moments.

Keywords

free-surface wetland / environmental dispersion / multi-scale analysis

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation Program of China (Grant No. 10972009). Help from Simon Skraatz is acknowledged.

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