CEE 577

Spring 2012

Detailed Schedule[1]

 

Click on Lecture # to see Lecture Overheads

Date

Day

#

Lecture

Homeworks

Reading

Notes

24 Jan

Tu

1

I. Introduction

·         Course overview & administration; regulations

 

Chapra L1

 

 

 

2

·         Mass Balance & Kinetics

 

Chapra L2

 

26 Jan

Th

3

II. Lake Models

·         Steady state solution

#1 assigned

Chapra L3

 

31 Jan

Tu

4

·         General Modeling

 

 

 

 

 

5

·         General Modeling

·         Particular Solutions

 

Chapra L4

 

2 Feb

Th

6

·         Particular Solutions (cont.)

·         Phosphorus lake models

#1 due, #2 assigned

Chapra L29 (1st half)

 

7 Feb

Tu

7

·         Export Coefficients

·         Lake Higgins example

DP#1 assigned

handout

 

 

 

8

·         Diffusion/dispersion

 

Chapra L8

 

9 Feb

Th

9

III. River Models

·         Hydrogeometry & field st.

#2 due

Chapra L14

 

14 Feb

Tu

10

·         Hydrographs

·         Low flows, dispersion

Maps inspected

Chapra L14

 

 

 

11

·         Model development

 

Chapra L9

 

16 Feb

Th

12

·         Distributed Systems Waste

·         Load Allocation

#3 assigned DP#1, part 1 due

 

 

21 Feb

Tu

13

·         BOD and DO

 

Chapra L19

 

 

 

14

·         Gas Transfer

 

Chapra L20

 

23 Feb

Th

15

·         GIS & Reaeration

#3 due

Chapra L21

Guest Lecture?

28 Feb

Tu

16

·         Streeter-Phelps: Point Sources

 

Chapra L21 & L22

 

 

 

17

·         Streeter-Phelps: Distributed Sources

·         Streeter-Phelps: Nitrogen & P/R

 

Chapra L23

 

1 Mar

Th

18

·         Photosynthesis & methods

DP#1, part 2 due

Chapra L24

 

6 Mar

Tu

19

·         Sediment Oxygen Demand

#4 assigned

Chapra L25

 

 

 

20

·         Dye Studies

 

Chapra L10

 

8 Mar

Th

21

·         Algal Modeling

 

Chapra L28 & L33 (parts)

 

13 Mar

Tu

22

·         QUAL2E

DP#1 all due

Chapra L26

 

 

 

23

·         Heat Balance

 

Chapra L30

 

15 Mar

Th

24

·         QUAL2E Model Formulation

 

Chapra L7

 
Spring Break

27 Mar

Tu

25

IV. Lakes Revisited

·         Lakes in Series

DP #2 Assigned, #4 due

Chapra L5

 

 

 

26

·         Stratified Lakes

 

Chapra L16

 

28 Mar

W

Mid-term EXAM  (7:00 PM)

 

29 Mar

Th

27

·         Empirical models

 

Chapra L29

 

3 Apr

Tu

28

·         Case Studies: TOC/THMFP models

#5 assigned, DP#2 part 1A

Chapra L29

 

 

 

29

·         TOC/THMFP models

 

Chapra L40

 

5 Apr

Th

30

·         TOC/THMFP models

DP#2 part 1B

 

 

10 Apr

Tu

31

V. Toxics Models

·         partitioning

DP#2 part 1C

Chapra L44

 

 

 

32

·         Toxics: Lake Models

#5 due

Chapra L41

 

12 Apr

Th

33

·         Toxics: River Models

 

Chapra L42

 

17 Apr

Tu

No Class – Monday Schedule

Mon Schedule

19 Apr

Th

34

·         Toxics: volatilization

 

Chapra L43

 

 

 

35

·         Toxics: hydrolysis, photolysis

#6 assigned, DP#2 part 2A

 

 

24 Apr

Tu

36

·         Simplified models

 

 

 

 

 

37

·         Toxic Models: PCBs in Great Lakes

DP#2 part 2B

Handouts

 

26 Apr

Th

38

·         Toxic Models: EDCs

 

Handouts

 

 

 

39

VI. Special Topics

·         Non-point source models

 

Handouts

 

27 Apr

F

Field Trip to FP, UBWPAD and Blackstone River

~1:30-6:30

1 May

Tu

40

·         Case Study: Aldrin in Iowa reservoir

#6 due, DP#2 part 2C

Handouts

 

Extra Topics; time permitting

41

·         TMDLs

 

 

 

 

·         PPCP Modeling

 

 

 

 

·         Flame Retardants

 

 

 

 

Final Exam: TBA


[1] Tentative, subject to change