Environmental fate and transport analysis with compartment modeling. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Keith W. Little.
• Other Names: Little, Keith W
• Contents: Introduction; GEM Highlights; Getting Started: Two Examples; Organization and Suggested Reading Strategy; GEM User’s Guide; Two Alternative Formulations of PRAM-Like Model; GEM Input Files; GEM Output Files; Compartment Approach, Transport Mechanisms, and Boundary Conditions; Compartment Approach; Mass Balance Equation for Compartment i ; System of Transport Mass Balance Equations for Single Chemical; System of Transport Mass Balance Equations for Multiple Chemicals; Extension to Porous Media; Boundary Conditions and Types of Compartments; Source and Sink Terms; Linear Source and Sink Terms; System of Fate and Transport, Mass Balance Equations for Multiple Chemicals; Source and Sink Terms for Nonlinear Systems; Solution Techniques for Steady-State Problems; Linear Systems; Nonlinear Systems; Accuracy of Solutions; Solution Techniques for Dynamic Problems; Introduction; Explicit Forward Time (Euler) Method; Explicit Centered Time (MacCormack) Method; Implicit Back Time Method; Implicit Centered Time (Crank–Nicolson) Method; Cross-Method Comparisons and Summary of Error Characteristics for Linear Problems; Appendix: Introduction to Matrices and Matrix Operations Index Chapters include references.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 363.730151; Pollution -- Mathematical models; Transport theory -- Mathematical models; Diffusion -- Mathematical models; Cross-media pollution; Compartmental analysis (Biology); Pollutants; Differential equations; SCIENCE / Chemistry / General; SCIENCE / Environmental Science; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781439887974; 1439887977
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.