Water Quality Modelling for Rivers and Streams - Benedini, Marcello; Tsakiris, George; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Preface -- 1. Water Quality in the context of Water Resources Management -- 2. Basic notions -- 3. Mathematical interpretation of pollution transport -- 4. Fundamental expressions -- 5. Dispersion in rivers and streams -- 6. The biochemical pollution -- 7. The most frequent pollutants in a river -- 8. Temperature dependence -- 9. Application of the general differential equations -- 10. The steady-state case -- 11. Interpretation in finite terms -- 12. Progress in numerical modelling: the Finite Difference Method -- 13. The finite element method -- 14. The finite volume method -- 15. Multi-dimensional approach -- 16. Thermal Pollution -- 17. Optimisation models -- 18. Model calibration and validation -- 19. Water Quality Measurements and Uncertainty -- 20. Model reliability -- 21. Final thoughts and future trends -- Appendix -- Index.
Keywords: Hydrogeology; Water quality; Water pollution; Environmental sciences; Applied mathematics; Engineering mathematics; Pollution; Hydrogeology; Water Quality/Water Pollution; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science; Mathematical and Computational Engineering; Pollution, general