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ENV 5056
NUMERICAL MODELING OF FLOW AND CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT
IN RIVERS
(NEHİRLERDE AKIM VE KİRLETİCİ TAŞINIMININ SAYISAL MODELLENMESİ)
Spring Semester
(Bahar Yarıyılı)
Three hours lecture, Three credit hours.
(Üç saat ders, Üç kredi)
PREREQUISITES
ENV5055 – Surface Water Quality Modeling or the approval of
the instructor
TEXTBOOK
None
REFERENCE BOOKS
Surface Water Quality Modeling
Steven C. Chapra
Mc Graw-Hill, New York, 1997.
ISBN: 0-07-011364-5
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 York, 1960
ISBN: 0-471-07392 X
Open Channel Hydraulics
Ven T. Chow
McGraw Hill Inc., New Yok, 1988
ISBN: 07-010776-9
Handbook of Hydrology
David R. Maidment (ed.)
McGraw Hill Inc., New York, 1993.
ISBN: 0-07-039732-5
Watershed Models
Vijah P. Singh and Donald K. Frevert (eds.)
CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2006
ISBN: 0-8493-3609-0
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
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
The modeling of flow and contaminant transport in river systems has long been an important
challenge for the civil and environmental engineering community. Considering the
complications regarding not only the underlying physical background but also the
mathematical difficulties with respect to its numerical solution, this topic is currently one of
the most active research areas of the community. The stringent regulations for the
preservation of river water quality necessitates that these systems are fully understood and
managed. Thus, modeling the river ecosystem has become an important objective of all
management plans developed in the last few decades. Based on these fundamentals, this
course is intended to provide the graduate student with an advanced level of understanding for
modeling water quality in rivers. Having completed this course, the students are expected to
know the fundamentals of flow and contaminant transport in rivers from a particular point of
view of distributed modeling concepts and are further expected to complete a modeling task
from start to finish for any river system. Finally, the course is also intended to provide the
details of the commonly used modeling software including but not limited to QUAL2K, CEQUAL-RIV1 and MIKE group of models.
IV. COURSE OUTLINE
WEEK 1. Introduction to flow and contaminant transport modeling in river systems
WEEK 2. Fundamentals of flow hydraulics in rivers systems
WEEK 3. Fundamentals of contaminant transport in river systems
WEEK 4. Derivation of governing equations of flow and contaminant transport
WEEK 5. Constituent reactions and interrelationships
WEEK 6. Dimensionality aspects and typical river models
WEEK 7. Fundamentals of numerical solution procedures
WEEK 8. Numerical solution algorithms for flow equation
WEEK 9. Numerical solution algorithms for contaminant transport equation
WEEK 10. Mid-term examination
WEEK 11. A complete modeling task – from head to toe
WEEK 12. Software packages - 1
WEEK 13. Software packages - 2
WEEK 14. Term project presentations - 1
WEEK 15. Term project presentations - 2
V. GRADING
Term project 30%
Midterm exam 30%
Final exam
40%
Dersin Kısa Tanıtımı (İngilizce)
NUMERICAL MODELING OF FLOW AND CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT IN
RIVERS: Fundamentals of water quality modeling in rivers, hydraulics of river flow,
principles of contaminant transport in rivers, governing equations, mass and volumetric
balances, advection, dispersion, constituent relationships, dimensionality issues in rivers,
typical river models, numerical solution procedures of flow hydraulics and contaminant
transport, typically used software packages, QUAL2K, CE-QUAL-RIV1, MIKE.
Dersin Kısa Tanıtımı (Türkçe)
NEHİRLERDE AKIM VE KİRLETİCİ TAŞINIMININ SAYISAL MODELLENMESİ:
Nehirlerde su kalitesi modellemesinin temelleri, nehir akışının hidroliği, kirletici taşınımının
temelleri, temel denklemler, kütle ve hacim dengeleri, adveksiyon, dispersiyon, bileşik
ilişkileri, nehirlerde boyutlar, tipik nehir modelleri, akım ve kirletici taşınımına yönelik
sayısal çözüm prosedürleri, yaygın olarak kullanılan yazılım paketleri, QUAL2K, CE-QUALRIV1, MIKE.
COURSE DESCRIPTION IN ECTS FORMAT
Course Code:
ENV 5056
Course Title: Numerical Modeling of Flow and Contaminant
Transport Modeling in Rivers
Level: Graduate
Year: 5 Semester: Spring ECTS Credit: 6
Status: Elective
Hours Per Week: T.(3+0) Total Class Hours: 15 weeks*3 hrs=45hrs
Instructor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Orhan GÜNDÜZ Instruction Language: English
PREREQUISITES
ENV 555 Surface Water Quality Modeling or the approval of the instructor
Objectives: The modeling of flow and contaminant transport in river systems has long been
an important challenge for the civil and environmental engineering community. Considering
the complications regarding not only the underlying physical background but also the
mathematical difficulties with respect to its numerical solution, this topic is currently one of
the most active research areas of the community. The stringent regulations for the
preservation of river water quality necessitates that these systems are fully understood and
managed. Thus, modeling the river ecosystem has become an important objective of all
management plans developed in the last few decades. Based on these fundamentals, this
course is intended to provide the graduate student with an advanced level of understanding for
modeling water quality in rivers. Having completed this course, the students are expected to
know the fundamentals of flow and contaminant transport in rivers from a particular point of
view of distributed modeling concepts and are further expected to complete a modeling task
from start to finish for any river system. Finally, the course is also intended to provide the
details of the commonly used modeling software including but not limited to QUAL2K, CEQUAL-RIV1 and MIKE group of models.
Learning outcomes:
1. To teach the student the details of flow and contaminant transport modeling in
rivers.
2. To establish a solid foundation such that a student could develop a water quality
model of a river from start to finish.
3. To introduce students to the numerical solution procedures of commonly used
models.
Contents: The course starts with an introduction to flow and contaminant transport modeling
in river systems. Within this context, the fundamentals of the hydraulics of flow and the
transport of contaminants in rivers are discussed. The constituent reactions and interrelations
are given together with dimensionality concepts of typical river models. The course then
presents the numerical solution procedures and algorithms for flow and contaminant transport
modeling. Finally, the course introduces several computer models that are commonly used for
modeling river systems.
TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODS
The course is taught in standard lecture format with class presentation and discussions. All
class members are expected to attend the courses, prepare and present a term project.
TEXTBOOK
None
ASSESSMENT
Term project
Midterm exam
Final exam