Subject Code: CE6L113 Name: Water Quality Modeling and Management L-T-P: 3-1-0 Credit: 4

Water quality description, various characteristics of water, water quality criteria and standards, elements of reaction kinetics, spatial and temporal aspects of contaminant transport, transport mechanism-advection, diffusion, dispersion; River and streams, convective diffusion equation and its application. Estuaries, Estuarine hydraulics, Estuarine water quality models; Lakes and reservoirs, eutrophication; Numerical/mathematical modelling of environmental systems, subsystems, and pollutant transport processes Contaminant transport in unsaturated flows, solute transport models for conservative species, solute transport in spatially variable soils; Contaminant transports in ground water advection, dispersion, one dimensional transport with linear adsorption, dual porosity models, numerical models, bio degradation reaction; Water quality management, socio-economic aspects of water quality management, management alternatives for water quality control, waste load allocation process, lake quality management, ground water remediation.
Books

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  • Thomann, R.V., Systems Analysis and Water Quality Management, McGraw Hill, 1972