Quality Modelling of Inland Waters
Code
10728
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
António Pedro de Nobre Carmona Rodrigues, Pedro Manuel da Hora Santos Coelho
Weekly hours
4
Total hours
66
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
Knowledge of the methods, principles and formulations taught in the scope of the discipline, to allow a theoretical and practical approach of problems and questions of the forum of water quality mathematical modelling and simulation.
Prerequisites
Not applied.
Subject matter
1. Introduction
2. Types of models. Steps in a model development
3. Modeling of processes in fully mixed systems
4. Modeling of processes in partially mixed systems
5. River water quality modeling
6. Dissolved oxygen. Bacterial pollution. Streeter-Phelps model
7. Temperature and eutrophication
8. Simple reservoir water quality models
9. Toxic substances
10. Computational models Qual2E, CE-Qual-W2
Bibliography
Chapra, S.C. (1997) - "Surface Water Quality Modeling", McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math.
Thomann, R.; Mueller, J.A. (1987) - "Principles of Surface Water Quality Modeling", Addison-Wesley Pub Co; Facsimile edition, 644p.
Orlob, G. T. (Ed.) (1983) - "Mathematical Modelling of Water Quality: Streams, Lakes and Reservoirs", Wiley-Interscience Publication, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Jonh Wiley & Sons.
Teaching method
Oral presentation, whenever suitable supported with slides and examples of real situations representing practical implementation of discussed topics.
Evaluation method
Students of the course are evaluated continuously throughout the semester.
The final grade (FG), between 0 and 20, is the result of weighing between the results of 2 tests (T1 and T2) and two reports (TP1 and TP2) in accordance with the following formula:
NF = 0,3 x T1 + 0,3 x T2 + 0.2 x TP1 + 0,2 x TP2
The tests'''' score can be replaced by one from a final exam.