Computational Methods in Environmental Fluid Mechanics
By: by Olaf Kolditz
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9783642076831; 9783662047613
Subjects: Engineering; Environmental sciences; Physics
Description: Fluids play an important role in environmental systems appearing as surface water in rivers, lakes, and coastal regions or in the subsurface as well as in the atmosphere. Mechanics of environmental fluids is concerned with fluid motion, associated mass and heat transport as well as deformation processes in subsurface systems. In this textbook the fundamental modelling approaches based on continuum mechanics for fluids in the environment are described, including porous media and turbulence. Numerical methods for solving the process governing equations as well as its object-oriented computer implementation are discussed and illustrated with examples. Finally the application of computer models in civil and environmental engineering is demonstrated.
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Table of contents: title: Balance Equations of Fluid Mechanics; title: Turbulence; title: Porous Media; title: Problem Classification; title: Numerical Methods; title: Finite Difference Method; title: Finite Element Method; title: Finite Volume Method; title: Object-Oriented Methods for Hydrosystem Modeling; title: Object-Oriented Programming Techniques; title: Element Implementation; title: Non-Linear Flow in Fractured Media; title: Heat Transport in Fractured-Porous Media; title: Density Dependent Flow in Porous Media; title: Multiphase Flow in Deformable Porous Media.