A model of groundwater contaminant transport using the CVBEM

The Complex Variable Boundary Element Method or CVBEM has been used to develop a simple but powerful numerical analog of contaminant transport in a saturated, confined groundwater aquifer. The presented numerical technique is based upon a mean-square fit of the boundary conditions which includes the effects of sources and sinks defined within the problem domain. The numerical analogue produces locations of streamlines and the time-evolution of the contaminant front location.