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Open courseware on water

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Water Quality Control

Offered by: MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Type: Tutorial
Keywords: Water quality, modelling, effluents

Description of open courseware

The course material emphasizes mathematical models for predicting distribution and fate of effluents discharged into lakes, reservoirs, rivers, estuaries, and oceans. It also focuses on formulation and structure of models as well as analytical and simple numerical solution techniques. Also discussed are the role of element cycles, such as oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus, as water quality indicators; offshore outfalls and diffusion; salinity intrusion in estuaries; and thermal stratification, eutrophication, and sedimentation processes in lakes and reservoirs. This course is a core requirement for the Environmental MEng program.
The course consists of the following topics:
1. Molecular Diffusion
2. Turbulent Diffusion
3. Spatial Averaging
4. Estuarine Mixing
5. Reactor Vessels
6. Initial Mixing
7. Surface Processes
8. Sediment-Water Exchange
9. Dissolved Oxygen
10. Water Quality Models

Assignments
1. Problem Set 1
2. Problem Set 2
3. Problem Set 3
4. Problem Set 4
5. Problem Set 5
6. Problem Set 6
7. Problem Set 7
8. Problem Set 8

Exam questions
A quiz and an optional final exam from the class are presented here.
Quiz 2
Optional Final Exam
Source of text, figures and link: MIT website

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