A positivity-preserving nonlinear finite volume scheme for radionuclide transport calculations in geological radioactive waste repository
International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow
ISSN: 0961-5539
Article publication date: 29 August 2019
Issue publication date: 3 February 2020
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to consider numerical simulation for radionuclide transport calculations in geological radioactive waste repository.
Design/methodology/approach
The nonlinear two-point flux approximation is used to discretize the diffusion flux and has a fixed stencil. The cell-vertex unknowns are applied to define the auxiliary unknowns and can be interpolated by the cell-centered unknowns. The approximation of convection flux is based on the second-order upwind method with a slope limiter.
Findings
Numerical results illustrate that the positivity-preserving is satisfied in solving this convection-diffusion system and has a second-order convergence rate on the distorted meshes.
Originality/value
A new positivity-preserving nonlinear finite volume scheme is proposed to simulate the far-field model used in the geological radioactive waste repository. Numerical results illustrate that the positivity-preserving is satisfied in solving this convection-diffusion system and has a second-order convergence rate on the distorted meshes.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the editor and referees for their valuable comments and suggestions, which helped us to improve the results of this paper.
AMS Subject Classification: 65M08, 76S05, 65N12.
Citation
Peng, G., Gao, Z., Yan, W. and Feng, X. (2020), "A positivity-preserving nonlinear finite volume scheme for radionuclide transport calculations in geological radioactive waste repository", International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 30 No. 2, pp. 516-534. https://doi.org/10.1108/HFF-04-2019-0327
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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