Environmental Transport Processes: Principles and Practice

How do pollutants, chemicals, and nutrients travel through our rivers, lakes, and atmosphere? Understanding these transport mechanisms is essential for addressing modern environmental challenges and designing sustainable engineering solutions. This text-only course provides a comprehensive introduction to environmental fluid mechanics, helping you analyze and predict the movement of substances in natural systems. What you'll learn: * Understand the foundational concepts of advection, molecular diffusion, and turbulent dispersion. * Calculate pollutant concentration profiles in surface waters and groundwater. * Apply mass balance equations to model steady-state and transient transport. * Analyze how boundary layers and shear flows influence mixing processes. * Evaluate modern environmental modeling frameworks and numerical simulation fundamentals. * Practice solving transport engineering problems through guided step-by-step written exercises. You will begin with core definitions of fluid properties and transport mechanisms before moving into multi-dimensional mixing analysis and real-world application scenarios. This course is designed for beginners in civil engineering, environmental science, or hydrology, with no prior transport modeling experience required. Start reading today to master the fundamentals of environmental transport processes.