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