Book Chapters
This page provides chapters from a draft text book on environmental fluid mechanics by Scott A. Socolofsky of Texas A&M University and Gerhard H. Jirka of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. All the contents of these chapters are copyrighted by these authors. you may download these chapters and print them out, but you may not publish them, sell themm, or pass them off as your own work.
For comments or questions, please contact Scott A. Socolofsky.
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Cover page, reading list, preface, and table of contents |
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Concepts, Definitions, and the Diffusion Equation |
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Advective Diffusion Equation |
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Mixing in Rivers: Turbulent Diffusion and Dispersion |
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Physical, Chemical, and Biological Transformations |
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Boundary Exchange: Air-Water and Sediment-Water Interfaces |
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Atmospheric Mixing |
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Watere Quality Modeling |
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Point-source Diffusion in an Infinite Domain: Boundary and Intial Conditions |
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Solutions to the Advective Reacting Diffusion Equation |
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Streeter-Phelps Equation |
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Common Water Quality Models |
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Back Material |
Glossary, References, and Index |
You may also just download the whole book: Environmental Fluid Mechanics 1: Mixing and Transport Processes in the Environment.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CTS-0348572. Any opinions, finds and conclusions or recommendations in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).