💧 Pulse vs. Continuous Contamination in Groundwater 🌊
How does a contaminant plume behave in an aquifer — and can a random walk particle simulation actually predict it?
In this reel:
🔹 The governing advection-dispersion equation
🔹 The analytical solution for a one-time pulse release vs. a continuous source
🔹 A side-by-side animation comparing the random walk (numerical) method against the exact analytical result
Notice how closely the noisy random-walk plume tracks the smooth analytical curve — validating the method for simulating real contaminant transport in groundwater. 📊
Based on the classic Kinzelbach (1986) solution.
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