CEGR 6141 - Water Quality Modeling - Fall 2001

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Announcements

10/24 - Exam 2 moved to November 6.  See revised syllabus for details
10/2 - All homeworks are now available

Course Info

• Office Hours: Tuesday 3:00 - 5:00 PM; Wednesday, Thursday 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM; or make an appointment
• Description (see "Stream Pollution Analysis")
• Syllabus

Homework

Hwk  # 1 |  Hwk #2 | Hwk #3 | Hwk #4 | Hwk #5 | Hwk #6 | Hwk #7 | Hwk #8 | Hwk #9 | Hwk #10

Test Information

Fall 2000 in-class test |

Powerpoint Presentations

• Background & Calibration of the Neuse Estuary Eutrophication Model (NEEM)
• NEEM Predictions of Water Quality Improvement
• Essential Components & Exchanges of Eutrophication Models

Qual2E Information

• QUAL2E site at Old Dominion U.
• Qual2E site at EPA
• Qual2E interface manual
• Qual2E manual: pp. 1-34 | pp. 35-92 | pp. 93-158 | pp. 159-189

More Class Information

• stability_spreadsheet
• MacCormack solution to problem 13_1
• Crank-Nicolson problem solved with a MATLAB script
• Crank-Nicolson problem solved with an EXCEL spreadsheet

This spreadsheet provided by Jeff Hieronymus.  Jeff reports that the numerical solution seems to have an effective diffusion coefficient that is higher than it should be (see graphs).  See what you think, and see what you can do about it.

Modeling and General Information

• Download the .pdf Reader
• EPA Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling
• Rates, Constants, and Kinetic Formulations in Surface Water Quality Modeling (Bowie et al. 1985) .pdf format

sect1-1 | sect2-34 | sect3-1 | sect3-3 | sect3-6 | sect4-1 | sect6-1 | sect6-5 | sect7-1 | sect8-1 |
• EPA OS&T Publications, Water Quality Modeling and TMDL Guidance

 

Author: Jim Bowen Updated:8/29/00