A Nonlinear Solute Transport Model and Data Reconstruction with Parameter Determination in an Undisturbed Soil-Column Experiment.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2011, Article ID 679531, 14 pages doi:10.1155/2011/679531 Research Article A Nonlinear Solute Transport Model and Data Reconstruction with Parameter Determination in an Undisturbed Soil-Column Experiment Gongsheng Li,1 De Yao,2 Yongzai Wang,3 and Xianzheng Jia1 1 Institute of Applied Mathematics, Shandong University of Technology, Shandong, Zibo 255049, China 2 Institute of Mining Technology, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia 010051, China 3 Center of Analysis and Testing, Shandong University of Technology, Shandong, Zibo 255049, China Correspondence should be addressed to Gongsheng Li, ligs@ Received 22 June 2011; Accepted 19 October 2011 Academic Editor: J. Rodellar Copyright q 2011 Gongsheng Li et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A real undisturbed soil-column infiltrating experiment in Zibo, Shandong, China, is investigated, and a nonlinear transport model for a solute ion penetrating through the column is put forward by using nonlinear Freundlich’s adsorption isotherm. Since Freundlich’s exponent and adsorption coefficient and source/sink terms in the model cannot be measured directly, an inverse problem of determining these parameters is encountered based on additional breakthrough data. Furthermore, an optimal perturbation regularization algorithm is introduced to determine the unknown parameters simultaneously. Numerical simulations are carried out and then the inversion algorithm is applied to solve the real inve