Modeling Tools for Environmental Engineers and Scientists

by Nirmala Khandan

Overview

Modeling Tools for Environmental Engineers and Scientists enables environmental professionals, faculty, and students with minimal computer programming skills to develop computer-based mathematical models for natural and engineered environmental systems. The author illustrates how commercially available syntax-free authoring software can be adapted to create customized, high-level models of environmental phenomena in groundwater, soil, aquatic, and atmospheric systems, and in engineered reactors.

This book includes a review of mathematical modeling and fundamental concepts such as material balance, reactor configurations, and fate and transport of environmental contaminants. It illustrates, using numerous examples, how mathematical and dynamic modeling software can be applied in analyzing and simulating natural and engineered environmental systems. The tools and examples included are applicable to a wide range of problems, both in the classroom and in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566769952
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/20/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nirmala Khandan

Table of Contents

FUNDAMENTALS. Introduction to Modeling. Fundamentals of Mathematical Modeling. Primer on Mathematics. Fundamentals of Environmental Processes. Fundamentals of Engineered Systems. Fundamentals of Natural Systems. Software for Developing Mathematical Models. APPLICATIONS. Modeling Engineered Environmental Systems. Modeling Natural Environmental Systems.

Editorial Reviews

"This book provides a catalog, descriptions and reviews 'Ecological models' ranging from statistical extrapolation models to population, Ecosystem and landscape models. The editors are leaders in the field. They and the authors have performed a valuable service to the ecorisk community. It is now the task of practitioners to explore this array of models and determine how to implement them in specific cases using realistically available data sets."
-Glenn W. Suter, II, United States EPA, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

From the Publisher

For all the literature being published on computer modeling, Nirmalakhandan (New Mexico State U.) noticed that the only people doing it also happened to be skilled in computer programming. He decided that was an unnecessary constriction. For professionals who have shied away from it because of the intricacies of computer programming and programming languages, he explains the new breed of computer software that enables non-programmers to develop models using English-like syntax and powerful mathematical, analytical, computational, and graphical functions in user-friendly interfaces. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)