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ALAN YOUNG, The Landfill Ecosystem, Mathematical Medicine and Biology: A Journal of the IMA, Volume 7, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 199–217, https://doi.org/10.1093/imammb/7.3.199
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Abstract
This paper presents a model for the process of anaerobic biodegradation within domestic landfills. Quantitative relations are proposed to describe the rates of mass conversion between the major landfill chemicals and the interaction fo macroscopic and microsopic processes. The Mehanogenic bacterial populations are modelled explicity, with the other species treated as simple reactions. The system is described in terms of a set of coupled rection–diffusion equations, and an example of their numerical solution is given for the case in which spatial dependency is neglected and external control of the temperature is imposed.