A new numerical reduction scheme for fully coupled multicomponent transport-reaction problems in porous media -: art. no. W09414

A new systematic approach for the efficient computation of the transport and reaction of a multispecies multireaction system is developed. The objective of this approach is to reduce the number of coupled nonlinear differential equations drastically, while splitting errors are avoided. The reduction mechanism is able to handle both kinetic reactions and heterogeneous equilibrium reactions and mobile and immobile species. It leads to a formulation of the nonlinear system with a Jacobian that has very few nonzero entries. Applications of the reduction mechanism to reaction networks, including a biodegradation problem which is modeled by the Monod approach, are given. Two numerical examples demonstrate the speed up of the presented reduction mechanism.