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Modelling bioremediation of polluted soils in unsaturated condition and its effect on the soil hydraulic properties

Iacopo Borsi, Angiolo Farina, Antonio Fasano, Mario Primicerio (2008)

Applications of Mathematics

We study the unsaturated flow of an incompressible liquid carrying a bacterial population through a porous medium contaminated with some pollutant. The biomass grows feeding on the pollutant and affecting at the same time all the physics of the flow. We formulate a mathematical model in a one-dimensional setting and we prove an existence theorem for it. The so-called fluid media scaling approach, often used in the literature, is discussed and its limitations are pointed out on the basis of a specific...

On a mathematical model for the crystallization of polymers

Maria Pia Gualdani (2003)

Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana

We consider a mathematical model proposed in [1] for the cristallization of polymers, describing the evolution of temperature, crystalline volume fraction, number and average size of crystals. The model includes a constraint W e q on the crystal volume fraction. Essentially, the model is a system of both second order and first order evolutionary partial differential equations with nonlinear terms which are Lipschitz continuous, as in [1], or Hölder continuous, as in [3]. The main novelty here is the...

On an over-determined problem of free boundary of a degenerate parabolic equation

Jiaqing Pan (2013)

Applications of Mathematics

This work is concerned with the inverse problem of determining initial value of the Cauchy problem for a nonlinear diffusion process with an additional condition on free boundary. Considering the flow of water through a homogeneous isotropic rigid porous medium, we have such desire: for every given positive constants K and T 0 , to decide the initial value u 0 such that the solution u ( x , t ) satisfies sup x H u ( T 0 ) | x | K , where H u ( T 0 ) = { x N : u ( x , T 0 ) > 0 } . In this paper, we first establish a priori estimate u t C ( t ) u and a more precise Poincaré type inequality...

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