Water and Energy Abstracts
  • Year: 2005
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue: 2

55. Saturated Modelling of Effluent Recharge and Its Impact on Groundwater Quality

  • Author:
  • Shutang Zhu, Gang Zhao, Keke Peng, Yuanle Ma
  • Total Page Count: 1
  • Page Number: 20 to 20

(Wastewater Re-use and Groundwater Quality – Proceedings of Symposium HS04 held during IUGG2003 at Sapporo, July 2003 – IAHS Publication 285, 2004, pp. 100–110).

Abstract

A numerical model based on saturated flow is developed to simulate the groundwater recharge with secondary effluent and to assess the impact of such recharge on groundwater quality. A particular means is adopted to deal with the varying water table. The operator-splitting techniques are applied to the reactive transport model while an implicit upwind finite difference scheme is developed to solve the convection-dispersion equations. The practical operations for the demonstration project are drawn up with the numerical results.

Keywords

Groundwater recharge, Numerical simulation, Operator-splitting, Reactive transport, Saturated flow