1.061
Transport Processes in the Environment
Introduction to mass transport in environmental flows, with emphasis on river and lake systems. Covers derivation and solutions to the differential form of mass conservation equations, hydraulic models for environmental systems, residence time distribution, molecular and turbulent diffusion for continuous and point sources, boundary layers, dissolution, bed-water exchange, air-water exchange, and particle transport. Meets with 1.061A first half of term. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
Fall 2008
Topics
- Introduction to transport, control volumes, and time-scales
- Flow profiles and turbulence
- Logarithmic profile
- Reactor models Residence time distribution
- Wetland circulation
- Introduction to diffusion Differential form of transport equation
- Instantaneous point source
- Accounting for boundaries; Peclet number
- Turbulence and diffusion
- Continuous release 1-D: steady and unsteady
- Dispersion
- Dispersion (cont.) Continuous release two and three dimensions
- Diffusivity in rivers
- Control volume with reactions; dissolution
- Constant concentration boundary condition
- Air-water exchange
- Air-water exchange (cont.)
- Air-Water exchange (cont.)
- Partitioning
- Retardation factor
- Retardation factor (cont.)
- Particle transport
- Colloidal transport
- Lake physics
Readings
- Fischer, Hugo, John List, C. Robert Koh, Jorg Imberger, and Norman Brooks. Mixing in Inland and Coastal Waters . San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780122581502.
Prerequisites & course information
Subject meets with 1.61 Prereq: 1.060 Acad Year 2027-2028: U (Fall) Acad Year 2028-2029: Not offered 3-1-8 units Credit cannot also be received for 1.061A
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2008
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.