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  Contents
 
Chapter 1 Introduction
  General considerations; gas transport models; numerical simulations of gas flow out of a landfill; boundary element method; cell integration and dual reciprocity (DRM) method; nomenclature.
 
Chapter 2 Sanitary Landfills
  Introduction; landfill description; landfill gases; gas production modelling.
 
Chapter 3 Fundamental Principles
  Conservation of mass of species i; diffusive velocity and flux; governing equation; heat generation and transport.
 
Chapter 4 Boundary Element Formulation
  Single gas model; multi gas model.
 
Chapter 5 Domain Decomposition on the DRM Approach
  Approximating functions in the DRM; numerical examples.
 
Chapter 6 The DRM-MD Integral Equation Method
  Introduction; basic concepts of the DRM-MD approach; numerical examples.
 
Chapter 7 BEM Solution for Design of Trenches in Multi-layered Landfills
  Introduction; numerical examples and discussions.