Eutrophication modeling of the estuarine portion of the Neuse River, North Carolina was conducted to predict the water quality improvement associated with a 30 percent nutrient loading reduction to the estuary. An existing two-dimensional, laterallyaveraged model (CE-QUAL-W2) was applied to predict water quality conditions in the lower 80-km of the estuary. During model calibration it was found...

Egypt is one of the most vulnerable countries to the potential impacts and risks of climate change. More than 95 % of the water budget of Egypt is received from the River Nile, which is very sensitive to temperature and precipitation changes. Aswan High Dam (AHD) reservoir, one of the largest man-made lakes in the world, is almost the sole source of freshwater to the country; hence, Egypt reali...

The following type of exponential convergence is proved for (non-degenerate or degenerate) McKean–Vlasov SDEs: W2(?t,??)2+Ent(?t|??)?ce??tmin{W2(?0,??)2,Ent(?0|??)},t?1, where c,?>0 are constants, ?t the distribution solution at time t, ?? unique invariant probability measure, Ent relative entropy and W2 L2-Wasserstein distance. In particular, this holds some granular media equations generalizi...

Dissolved oxygen is an influential factor of aquatic ecosystem health. Future predictions of oxygen deficits are paramount for maintaining water quality. Oxygen demands depend greatly on a waterbody’s attributes. A large sediment–water interface relative to volume means sediment oxygen demand has greater influence in shallow systems. In shallow, ice-covered waterbodies the potential for winter ...

A stormwater runoff model based on the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) method and a finite-volume based water quality model have been developed to investigate the use of Simulink for use in teaching and research. Simulink, a MATLAB extension, is a graphically based model development environment for system modeling and simulation. Widely used for mechanical and electrical systems, Simulink has h...

In developing TMDL waste-load allocations for the Snake River-Reservoir system in Western Idaho and Eastern Oregon, determinations of the assimilative capacity of the system and the impact of pollutant reduction strategies has been performed using both a statistical-correlation approach and a mechanistic modeling approach. The system included the Lower Snake River, Brownlee Reservoir, Oxbow Res...

Blocking the natural bi-directional flow in an estuarine system using an artificial dyke has commonly caused serious water quality problems. In the southwestern part of South Korea, a parallel triple-reservoir system was constructed by blocking the mouth of three different rivers (Yeongsan, Okcheon, and Kumja), which were then interconnected using two open channels. This system has experienced ...

A method for assessing model result uncertainty is presented and applied to a case where a paper mill wastewater is discharged into an estuary in the Southeastern U.S.. Model result uncertainty was quantified by incorporating the uncertainty analysis into model calibration. The two-dimensional, laterally averaged model CE-QUAL-W2 was used to predict water quality conditions. The water quality m...