Transport Processes in the Environment

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	LABS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction to transport, control volumes, and time-scales
2	Flow profiles and turbulence	Lab 1: Entekhabi Sources of uncertainty Relative humidity
3	Logarithmic profile		Homework 1 due
4	Reactor models Residence time distribution	Lab 2: Nepf Propagation of error velocity measurements
5	Wetland circulation		Homework 2 due
6	Introduction to diffusion Differential form of transport equation	Lab 3: Nepf Wetland circulation residence time
7	Instantaneous point source	Lab 4: Nepf Dispersion in soil column	Homework 3 due
8	Accounting for boundaries; Peclet number
9	Turbulence and diffusion	Lab 5: Entekhabi Groundwater pollutant Transport modeling	Homework 4 due
10	Quiz 1
11	Continuous release 1-D: steady and unsteady
12	Dispersion	Lab 6: Nepf Flume tracer study diffusivity/dispersion	Homework 5 due
13	Dispersion (cont.) Continuous release two and three dimensions
14	Diffusivity in rivers	Lab 7: Entekhabi Infiltration in unsaturated soil column
15	Control volume with reactions; dissolution		Homework 6 due
16	Constant concentration boundary condition	Lab 8: Nepf / Gschwend Dissolution: transport across Laminar sub-layer
17	Air-water exchange		Homework 7 due
18	Air-water exchange (cont.)	Lab 9: Entekhabi Dilution gaging
19	Air-Water exchange (cont.)	Lab 10: Nepf / Gschwend Air-water exchange
20	Partitioning		Homework 8 due
21	Quiz 2
22	Retardation factor
23	Retardation factor (cont.)	Lab 11: Entekhabi Hydrograph calibration using GIS
24	Particle transport		Homework 9 due
25	Colloidal transport
26	Lake physics
27	Quiz 3