ENV 5055 SURFACE WATER QUALITY MODELING
Fall Semester
Three hours lecture, Three credit hours
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Orhan GÜNDÜZ
Room: A-115
E-mail: orhan.gunduz@deu.edu.tr
Telephone: 3017141
PREREQUISITES
None
TEXTBOOK
Surface Water Quality Modeling
Steven C. Chapra
Mc Graw-Hill, New York, 1997.
ISBN: 0-07-011364-5
REFERENCE BOOKS
Environmental Modeling. Fate and Transport of Pollutants in
Water, Air, and Soil
Jerald L. Schnoor
Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1996
ISBN: 0-471-12436-2
Mixing in Inland and Coastal Waters
Hugo B. Fischer, E. John List, Robert C. Y. Koh, Jorg
Imberger, Norman H. Brooks
Academic Pres, San Diego, 1979
ISBN: 0-12-258150-4
Transport Phenomena
R. Byron Bird, Warren E. Stewart, Edwin N. Lightfoot
John Wiley and Sons, New Yotk, 1960
ISBN: 0-471-07392 X
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Modeling surface water quality is an important focus of Civil and Environmental
Engineering. With the increased national and international concerns on the quality status of
surface water bodies, engineers are required to be equipped with the essential fundamental
knowledge and the necessary tools to model these systems. Thus, the main objective of the
course is to provide graduate students with a basic theoretical understanding of surface water
quality modeling and to introduce an array of commonly used models including QUAL2EU,
CE-QUAL-W2, WASP and others.
IV. COURSE OUTLINE
WEEK 1. Introduction to water quality modeling
WEEK 2. Fundamentals of reaction kinetics and mass balance
WEEK 3. Completely mixed systems 1. Basic loading functions and their solutions
WEEK 4. Completely mixed systems 2. Reactor Systems and solution techniques
WEEK 5. Incompletely mixed systems 1. Advection and diffusion
WEEK 6. Incompletely mixed systems 2. Steady and unsteady state
WEEK 7. Incompletely mixed systems 3. Numerical solution techniques
WEEK 8. Mid-term examination
WEEK 9. Rivers and streams
WEEK 10. Estuaries and lakes
WEEK 11. Dissolved oxygen and nutrients
WEEK 12. Eutrophication and temperature
WEEK 13. The concept of modeling – sensitivity, performance, discretization
WEEK 14. Computer models
WEEK 15. Term project presentations
V. GRADING
Homeworks 25%
Midterm exam 25%
Final exam
50%