Dynamics of spatial heterogeneity in a landfill with interacting phase densities -- a stochastic analysis

DOI10.1016/J.APM.2016.08.026MaRDI QIDQ2284443zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Amit Chattopadhyay, Prasanta Kumar Dey, Sadhan Kumar Ghosh

Publication date 15 January 2020

Published in Applied Mathematical Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00661

zbMATH Keywords

acetogenic masshydrolysed masslandfillmethanogenic massprobability density functionstochastic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematical modeling or simulation for problems pertaining to mechanics of deformable solids (74-10)

Abstract: A landfill represents a complex and dynamically evolving structure that can be stochastically perturbed by exogenous factors. Both thermodynamic (equilibrium) and time varying (non-steady state) properties of a landfill are affected by spatially heterogenous and nonlinear subprocesses that combine with constraining initial and boundary conditions arising from the associated surroundings. While multiple approaches have been made to model landfill statistics by incorporating spatially dependent parameters on the one hand (data based approach) and continuum dynamical mass-balance equations on the other (equation based modelling), practically no attempt has been made to amalgamate these two approaches while also incorporating inherent stochastically induced fluctuations affecting the process overall. In this article, we will implement a minimalist scheme of modelling the time evolution of a realistic three dimensional landfill through a reaction-diffusion based approach, focusing on the coupled interactions of four key variables - solid mass density, hydrolysed mass density, acetogenic mass density and methanogenic mass density. In a marked departure from previous predictions, our results indicate that close to the linearly stable limit, the large time steady state properties, arising out of a series of complex coupled interactions between the stochastically driven variables, are scarcely affected by the biochemical growth-decay statistics. Our results clearly show that an equilibrium landfill structure relates to plant production times of approximately 20-30 years instead of the previous (incorrect) deterministic model predictions of 50 years and above.

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