Mathematical analysis of radionuclides displacement in porous media with nonlinear adsorption (Q852568)

This paper deals with the mathematical analysis of the miscible displacement of radioactive elements in a heterogeneous medium. In other words, the authors consider a water-saturated area of the ground that is polluted by radionuclides coming from outside or from a leak of their storage site. The problem associates two phenomena: the flow, governed by Darcy's filtration velocity, and the displacement of the chemical species into this flow. The novelty of the model lies in the adsorption phenomenon that leads to a time derivative of a nonlinear term in these equations. The main results of the authors are the existence of at least one weak solution and the regularity and boundedness properties verified by the concentrations.