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Geothermal Effects for BOD Removal in Horizontal Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands: A Numerical Approach

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A simplified numerical approach is presented for the simultaneous groundwater flow, geothermal energy (heat) transport and contaminant transport and removal in shallow unconfined aquifers. Emphasis is given to Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) removal in Horizontal Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands (HSF CW), under non-isothermal conditions. The system of the governing non-linear partial differential equations is treated numerically by using the family computer code Visual MODFLOW. In a numerical example, where BOD is injected in entering geothermal water, the so-resulted computational results are compared with available experimental data.

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The research is partly supported by the FP7 project AComIn: Advanced Computing for Innovation, grant 316087 and Bulgarian NSF Grants, DMU 03-62 and DFNI I-01/5.

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    Konstantinos Liolios, Krassimir Georgiev & Ivan Georgiev

  2. Department of Infrastructure and Surveying Engineering, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Vassilios Tsihrintzis

  3. Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Ivan Georgiev

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Liolios, K., Tsihrintzis, V., Georgiev, K., Georgiev, I. (2017). Geothermal Effects for BOD Removal in Horizontal Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands: A Numerical Approach. In: Georgiev, K., Todorov, M., Georgiev, I. (eds) Advanced Computing in Industrial Mathematics. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 681. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49544-6_10

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