Water-Quality Engineering in Natural Systems: Fate and Transport Processes in the Water Environment

ISBN-13: 9781119532026 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 656 str.

David A. Chin

Spis treści

PREFACE xiii1 INTRODUCTION 11.1 Background 11.2 Sources of Water Pollution 21.3 Control of Water Pollution 62 WATER QUALITY 92.1 Introduction 92.2 Physical Measures 92.3 Chemical Measures 142.4 Biological Measures 263 FUNDAMENTALS OF FATE AND TRANSPORT 373.1 Introduction 373.2 The Advection-Diffusion Equation 373.3 Fundamental Solutions of the Advection-Diffusion Equation 463.4 Advection and Diffusion of Heat 833.5 Transport of Suspended Particles 853.6 Fate and Transport of Microorganisms in Natural Waters 873.7 Turbulent Diffusion 883.8 Dispersion 954 RIVERS AND STREAMS 1094.1 Introduction 1094.2 Transport Processes 1114.3 Models of Spills 1254.4 Models of Dissolved Oxygen 1344.5 Models of Nutrients 1624.6 Models of Pathogens 1634.7 Contaminant Loads 1654.8 Management and Restoration 1805 GROUNDWATER 1955.1 Introduction 1955.2 Contaminant Sources 1955.3 Fate and Transport Models 2025.4 Transport Processes 2115.5 Fate Processes 2215.6 Nonaqueous Phase Liquids 2335.7 Monitoring Wells 2415.8 Remediation of Subsurface Contamination 2466 WATERSHEDS 2756.1 Introduction 2756.2 Urban Watersheds 2766.3 Agricultural Watersheds 3006.4 Airsheds 3217 LAKES AND RESERVOIRS 3257.1 Introduction 3257.2 Physical Processes 3297.3 Eutrophication 3347.4 Thermal Stratification 3437.5 Water-Quality Models 3507.6 Management and Restoration 3688 WETLANDS 3818.1 Introduction 3818.2 Natural Wetlands 3818.3 Constructed Treatment Wetlands 3899 OCEANS AND ESTUARIES 4099.1 Introduction 4099.2 Ocean Outfalls 4109.3 Multiport Diffusers for Dense Discharges 4369.4 Oil Spills 4399.5 Chemical Spills 4709.6 Estuaries 47210 ANALYSIS OF WATER-QUALITY MEASUREMENTS 48910.1 Introduction 48910.2 Probability Distributions 48910.3 Fundamental Probability Distributions 49110.4 Derived Probability Distributions 49710.5 Estimation of a Population Distribution from Sample Data 50110.6 Estimation of Parameters of Population Distribution 50710.7 Probability Distributions of Sample Statistics 51110.8 Confidence Intervals 51510.9 Hypothesis Testing 51810.10 Relationships Between Variables 53210.11 Functions of Random Variables 53810.12 Kriging 54311 MODELING 56111.1 Introduction 56111.2 Code Selection 56211.3 Calibration 56211.4 Validation 57511.5 Simulation 57511.6 Uncertainty Analysis 575A UNITS AND CONVERSION FACTORS 581A.1 Units 581A.2 Conversion Factors 582B FLUID PROPERTIES 585B.1 Water 585B.2 Organic Compounds Found in Water 587B.3 Air at Standard Atmospheric Pressure 587C STATISTICAL TABLES 589C.1 Areas Under Standard Normal Curve 589C.2 Critical Values of the t Distribution 591C.3 Critical Values of the Chi-Square Distribution 592C.4 Critical Values of the F Distribution (Alpha = 0.05) 593C.5 Critical Values for the Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test Statistic 595D SPECIAL FUNCTIONS 597D.1 Error Function 597D.2 Bessel Functions 598D.3 Gamma Function 602D.4 Exponential Integral 602BIBLIOGRAPHY 605INDEX 625

O autorze

David A. Chin is a professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Miami. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, a Board Certified Environmental Engineer, and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He has authored widely used textbooks on water-resources engineering and fluid mechanics, he has published extensively in peer reviewed journals, in addition to authoring the Wiley book on Water-Quality Engineering in Natural Systems.