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A subsoil cleanup technology is called bioventing: bacteria are used to biodegrade pollutants and air is injected to enhance their activity. In this paper a general mathematical model describing the physical phenomenon is presented. The model is based on the theory of fluid dynamics in porous media. A multi-component and multi-phase fluid is considered and the system of partial differential equations is coupled with a population bacteria equation.
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Notarnicola, F. (2007). Subsoil Decontamination with Biological Techniques: a Bio-Fluid Dynamics Problem. In: Aletti, G., Micheletti, A., Morale, D., Burger, M. (eds) Math Everywhere. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44446-6_22
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