Is Dispersion Coefficient dependent on concentration in ADE (advection-diffusion-equation)? If yes, what is its relation or equation versus concentration? Regards Azade
Dear Azade. The dispersion coefficient does not depend on concentration, but on porosity (in case of soil) or on mixing (in case of a water mass). Dispersion and diffusion are expressed on the same unit : length*length/time.
The dispersion coefficient is classically defined independent of actual contaminant or solute concentrations. Hence, Fick's Law, which is used to relate the dispersive flux to concentration gradient is a linear one. However several researchers reported that the relationship deviates from linearity under high concentration gradient conditions. I agree with that observation. You can see a list of such reports and proposed alternative models in my paper titled "Multispecies hydrodynamic dispersion under high concentration gradients."