Groundwater quantity and quality management [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mustafa M. Aral, Stewart W. Taylor

• Pubblicazione: Reston, VA, : American Society of Civil Engineers, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (582 p.)
• Disciplina: 628.1/14
• Soggetto topico: Groundwater - Management; Groundwater - Quality
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: AralM. M (Mustafa M.) TaylorStewart Warren
• Note generali: "Sponsored by Groundwater Management Technical Committee of the Groundwater Council of EWRI, Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""1. Introduction""; ""1.1 Groundwater Management""; ""1.2 Purpose, Scope, and Organization of Book""; ""1.3 Future Trends""; ""1.4 References""; ""2. Groundwater Hydrology""; ""2.1 Hydrologic Cycle""; ""2.2 The Near Surface Environment""; ""2.3 Physics of Flow through Porous Media""; ""2.4 References""; ""3. Groundwater Quality: Fate and Transport of Contaminants""; ""3.1 Introduction""; ""3.2 Transport Processes""; ""3.3 Chemical Reactions, Retardation and Decay of Solutes"" ; ""3.4 Mathematical Model of Contaminant Transport""""3.5 Analytical Solutions to the Mass Transport Equation""; ""3.6 Numerical Solutions to the Mass Transport Equation""; ""3.7 Demonstration Example""; ""3.8 On the Use of Artificial Neural Networks in the Analysis of Nitrate Distribution in Groundwater""; ""3.9 References""; ""4. Review of Analytical Methods of Modeling Contaminant Fate and Transport""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Single Species Transport""; ""4.3 Multi-species Reactive Transport in One-Dimensional Systems""; ""4.4 Multi-species Transport in Multi-dimensional Systems"" ; ""4.5 Conclusions""""4.6 References""; ""5. Physical and Chemical Characterization of Groundwater Systems""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.2 Reconnaissance-Level Investigations""; ""5.3 Geophysical Investigations""; ""5.4 Test Drilling and Well Installation""; ""5.5 Water Quality Characterization""; ""5.6 Characterization Guidance and Specifications""; ""5.7 References""; ""6. Quantitative Analysis of Groundwater Systems""; ""6.1 Use of Models in Groundwater Management""; ""6.2 Constructing Site-Specific Simulation Models""; ""6.3 Optimization Methods for Groundwater Management"" ; ""6.4 References""""7. Model Calibration and Parameter Structure Identification in Characterization of Groundwater Systems""; ""7.1 Introduction""; ""7.2 Parameterization of Heterogeneity""; ""7.3 Parameter Structure Identification""; ""7.4 Interpolation Point Selection""; ""7.5 Model Selection""; ""7.6 Bayesian Model Averaging""; ""7.7 Experimental Design""; ""7.8 Summary and Conclusions""; ""7.9 References""; ""8. Development of Groundwater Resources""; ""8.1 Introduction""; ""8.2 Aquifer Yield and Groundwater Availability""; ""8.3 Effects of Groundwater Development"" ; ""8.4 Regional Scale Development of Groundwater""""8.5 Conjunctive Use of Surface Water and Groundwater""; ""8.6 Coastal Aquifer Development""; ""8.7 Development of Brackish Groundwater""; ""8.8 References""; ""9. Subsurface and Surface Water Flow Interactions""; ""9.1 Introduction""; ""9.2 Subsurface Flow in Near Stream Environments""; ""9.3 Surface-Subsurface Interactions at the Hillslope Scale""; ""9.4 Watershed Scale Groundwater and Surface Water Interactions""; ""9.5 References""; ""10. Density Dependent Flows, Saltwater Intrusion and Management""; ""10.1 Introduction"" ; ""10.2 Density-Dependent Governing Equations""
• Titolo autorizzato: Groundwater quantity and quality management
• ISBN: 0-7844-7622-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461235803321
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