Emphasis is placed on the physical, legal and economic aspects and their incorporation into simulation models. Applications include reservoir systems for water supply and hydropower, irrigation planning and operation, and water quality management. Models for evaporation, snowmelt, infiltration, soil moisture, and runoff flood routing are developed for basic energy and fluid transport equations. Application of physically based hydrologic models, including HEC 1. Techniques of exploratory analysis, distribution fitting, Monte Carlo simulation, univariate and multivariate regression, time series analysis and forecasting.
Emphasis is placed on analysis of field-scale heterogeneous groundwater systems.
Use of predictive mathematical models as a basis for water and air quality management. Development of solution approaches to water quality and hydraulic problems in surface and groundwater systems. Analysis of model sensitivities, calibration and verification. Analysis of reactor hydraulics, reactor kinetics, coagulation, flocculation, solid-liquid separation processes, adsorption, and gas transfer. Introduction to the fundamentals of the fluid dynamics of natural surface waters by analysis of the governing equations of mass, momentum, and heat conservation.