Environmental modeling : using MATLAB®

"The book has two aims: to introduce basic concepts of environmental modelling and to facilitate the application of the concepts using modern numerical tools such as MATLAB. It is targeted at all natural scientists dealing with the environment: process and chemical engineers, physicists, chemists, biologists, biochemists, hydrogeologists, geochemists and ecologists. MATLAB was chosen as the major computer tool for modeling, firstly because it is unique in it's capabilities, and secondly because it is available in most academic institutions, in all universities and in the research departments of many companies. In the 2nd edition many chapters will include updated and extended material. In addition the MATLAB command index will be updated and a new chapter on numerical methods will be added. For the second edition of 'Environmental Modeling' the first edition was completely revised. Text and figures were adapted to the recent MATLAB(R) version. Several chapters were extended. Correspondingly the index of MATLAB commands was extended considerably, which makes the book even more suitable to be used as a reference work by novices. Finally an introduction into numerical methods was added as a new chapter"--Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 3-33 Fundamentals of Modeling, Principles and MATLAB®....Pages 35-56 Transport....Pages 57-74 Transport Solutions....Pages 75-95 Transport with Decay and Degradation....Pages 97-110 Transport and Sorption....Pages 111-132 Transport and Kinetics....Pages 133-146 Transport and Equilibrium Reactions....Pages 147-167 Ordinary Differential Equations: Dynamical Systems....Pages 169-189 Parameter Estimation....Pages 191-213 Front Matter....Pages 215-215 Flow Modeling....Pages 217-237 Groundwater Drawdown by Pumping....Pages 239-252 Aquifer Baseflow and 2D Meshing....Pages 253-263 Potential and Flow Visualization....Pages 265-279 Streamfunction and Complex Potential....Pages 281-301 2D and 3D Transport Solutions (Gaussian Puffs and Plumes)....Pages 303-316 Image Processing and Geo-Referencing....Pages 317-325 Compartment Graphs and Linear Systems....Pages 327-346 Nonlinear Systems....Pages 347-362 Graphical User Interfaces....Pages 363-375 Front Matter....Pages 215-215 Numerical Methods: Finite Differences....Pages 377-393 Back Matter....Pages 395-410