% Program to evaluate dissolved oxygen from Streeter-Phelps equation clear all close all % Assign values for coefficients Kd=0.8 % organic matter decay rate, day^(-1) Ka=1.0 % aeration rate, day^(-1) cs=8 % saturation concentration dissolved oxygen, mg/L c0=6 % upstream concentration dissolved oxygen, mg/L L0=10 % concentration of oxygen-consuming organic matter injetced at x=0, mg/L U=4 % stream velocity km/day % define vector of stream locations x=[0:10] % km % evaluate K1, t, and c K1=Kd/(Ka-Kd) % t is a vector of travel times (in days) % corresponding to locations specified in x t=x/U % c is a vector of concentrations corresponding % to locations specified in x c=cs-K1*L0*(exp(-Kd*t)-exp(-Ka*t))-(cs-c0)*exp(-Ka*t); % plot c vs. x figure plot(x,c) title('Dissolved Oxygen in a Stream') xlabel('Distance, km') ylabel('Dissolved oxygen, mg/L') axis([0 L0 0 cs]) % Using a for loop: for x2=1:11 t2=(x2-1)/U; c2(x2)=cs-K1*L0*(exp(-Kd*t2)-exp(-Ka*t2))-(cs-c0)*exp(-Ka*t2); end figure plot(x,c2) title('Dissolved Oxygen in a Stream') xlabel('Distance, km') ylabel('Dissolved oxygen, mg/L') axis([0 L0 0 cs])