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Study of one‐dimensional contaminant transport in soils using fractional calculus
Author(s) -
Mirza Itrat Abbas,
Akram Muhammad Saeed,
Shah Nehad Ali,
Akhtar Shehraz,
Muneer Mirfat
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mathematical methods in the applied sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1099-1476
pISSN - 0170-4214
DOI - 10.1002/mma.7225
Subject(s) - fractional calculus , mathematics , laplace transform , heaviside step function , boundary value problem , mathematical analysis , ordinary differential equation , sine and cosine transforms , partial differential equation , differential equation , fourier transform , fourier analysis , short time fourier transform
In this communication, the soil contamination transport phenomenon is studied using fractional calculus. Specifically, a variant of non‐integer fractional derivative known as Antangana–Baleanu fractional derivative is applied on one‐dimensional advection diffusion equation to obtain a fractional model for the contaminant transport in soils. This fractional model is examined under the hypothesis of initial and generalized Robin type boundary conditions. The analytical expression of solution for contaminant transport in soil is derived for the fractional initial‐boundary value problem for partial differential equation (PDE) of mixed type using integral transforms, namely, Laplace and finite sine–cosine Fourier transforms. The solution of the ordinary advection diffusion equation arises as a case of the obtained solution. The numerical results are obtained for initial concentrated loading and Heaviside unit step function as a boundary conditions, from the analytical solution for various parameters of interest, and the corresponding graphs are plotted with the help of software MATHCAD. The graphs illustrate that the memory effects are remarkable for small values of time and ordinary for large values of the time.