Water Quality Hazards and Dispersion of Pollutants

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Czernuszenko, Włodzimierz (Editor), Rowiński, Paweł M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Water quality.; Water pollution.; Civil engineering.; Civil Engineering.; Water Quality/Water Pollution.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.

Water resources are under stress worldwide and one of the elements of this stress - man's impact on water quality constitutes a key problem especially in well-developed countries. This problem receives an increasing attention of the public, politicians, decision makers nowadays. People have to...

Table of Contents:

• Mixing Models for Water Quality Management in Rivers: Continuous and Instantaneous Pollutant Releases
• Three-Dimensional Model of Flow and Mixing Processes in Open Channels
• Horizontal Mixing in Shallow Flows
• On the Theoretical Prediction of Longitudinal Dispersion Coefficients in a Compound Channel
• Application of a Transient Storage Model to Meandering Channel Studies of Solute Transport and Dispersion
• Experimental Study of Travel Times in a Small Stream
• Migration of Floating Particles in a Compound Channel
• Persistence of Skewness of Concentration Distribution
• Moments and Analytical Solution of Coupled Equation Describing Transport of Pollutants in Rivers
• Influence of Hyporheic Exchange on Solute Transport in a Highly Hydropower Regulated River
• Models of Hyporheic Contamination by Non Reactive Solutes, Metals and Colloids
• The Flow in Groyne Fields.