A method-of-lines formulation for a model of reactive settling in tanks with varying cross-sectional area

DOI10.1093/IMAMAT/HXAB012MaRDI QIDQ5009263zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Raimund Bürger, Julio Careaga, Stefan Diehl

Publication date 19 August 2021

Published in IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06239

zbMATH Keywords

biokinetic reactiondegenerate parabolic equationfinite difference space discretizationmulti-component flowsecondary settling tankwastewater treatment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Method of lines for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M20) Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Suspensions (76T20) Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

Abstract: Reactive settling denotes the process of sedimentation of small solid particles dispersed in a viscous fluid with simultaneous reactions between the components that constitute the solid and liquid phases. This process is of particular importance for the simulation and control of secondary settling tanks (SSTs) in water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs), formerly known as wastewater treatment plants. A spatially one-dimensional model of reactive settling in an SST is formulated by combining a mechanistic model of sedimentation with compression with a model of biokinetic reactions. In addition, the cross-sectional area of the tank is allowed to vary as a function of height. The final model is a system of strongly degenerate parabolic, nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs)that include discontinuous coefficients to describe the feed, underflow and overflow mechanisms, as well as singular source terms that model the feed mechanism. A finite difference scheme for the final model is derived by first deriving a method-of-lines formulation (discrete in space, continuous in time), and then passing to a fully discrete scheme by a time discretization. The advantage of this formulation is its compatibility with common practice in development of software for WRRFs. The main mathematical result is an invariant-region property, which implies that physically relevant numerical solutions are produced. Simulations of denitrification in SSTs in wastewater treatment illustrate the model and its discretization.

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