Distribution of pollutant in longitudinal direction of open channel flow

Predicting of distribution of pollutant in a rectangular open channel on passive mixing of pollutant in longitudinal direction is reported. A finite numerical difference scheme developed by author was extended to determine longitudinal advection and dispersion of concentration of pollutant into the...

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Main Author:	Saeedfar, Soheil
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	TC Hydraulic engineering Ocean engineering
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/30735/1/SoheilSaeedfarMFKA2012.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.307352018-05-27T07:08:16Z Distribution of pollutant in longitudinal direction of open channel flow 2012-01 Saeedfar, Soheil TC Hydraulic engineering. Ocean engineering Predicting of distribution of pollutant in a rectangular open channel on passive mixing of pollutant in longitudinal direction is reported. A finite numerical difference scheme developed by author was extended to determine longitudinal advection and dispersion of concentration of pollutant into the open channel flow. To compute the concentration and depicting the graph versus time, modeling a channel to obtain velocity in small steps of the length of the channel was inevitable. Modeling of the channel is based on Saint-Venant equation as the governing equation. For solving the governing equations, direct numerical method by using partial differential equation into finite difference equations have been considered. In numerical method for the solution of the partial derivative equations, the computations are performed on the x-t grid depending on the length of channel. Explicit scheme for solution is considered. The unknown variables (velocity, depth, and concentration of pollutant) at a future time step t+?tare considered by a number of variables at the previous time steps. The graphs of concentration versus time and discharge versus time were depicted and compared to each other. Also the graphs of concentration with the depicted graph of experimental data were compared. Model results and field data were generally in good agreement. About 70% of the results from numerical method were matched with the data from experimental performance. 2012-01 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/30735/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/30735/1/SoheilSaeedfarMFKA2012.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering
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language	English
topic	TC Hydraulic engineering Ocean engineering
spellingShingle	TC Hydraulic engineering Ocean engineering Saeedfar, Soheil Distribution of pollutant in longitudinal direction of open channel flow
description	Predicting of distribution of pollutant in a rectangular open channel on passive mixing of pollutant in longitudinal direction is reported. A finite numerical difference scheme developed by author was extended to determine longitudinal advection and dispersion of concentration of pollutant into the open channel flow. To compute the concentration and depicting the graph versus time, modeling a channel to obtain velocity in small steps of the length of the channel was inevitable. Modeling of the channel is based on Saint-Venant equation as the governing equation. For solving the governing equations, direct numerical method by using partial differential equation into finite difference equations have been considered. In numerical method for the solution of the partial derivative equations, the computations are performed on the x-t grid depending on the length of channel. Explicit scheme for solution is considered. The unknown variables (velocity, depth, and concentration of pollutant) at a future time step t+?tare considered by a number of variables at the previous time steps. The graphs of concentration versus time and discharge versus time were depicted and compared to each other. Also the graphs of concentration with the depicted graph of experimental data were compared. Model results and field data were generally in good agreement. About 70% of the results from numerical method were matched with the data from experimental performance.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Saeedfar, Soheil
author_facet	Saeedfar, Soheil
author_sort	Saeedfar, Soheil
title	Distribution of pollutant in longitudinal direction of open channel flow
title_short	Distribution of pollutant in longitudinal direction of open channel flow
title_full	Distribution of pollutant in longitudinal direction of open channel flow
title_fullStr	Distribution of pollutant in longitudinal direction of open channel flow
title_full_unstemmed	Distribution of pollutant in longitudinal direction of open channel flow
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granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Civil Engineering
publishDate	2012
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/30735/1/SoheilSaeedfarMFKA2012.pdf
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Distribution of pollutant in longitudinal direction of open channel flow

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