Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke

publications by Miguel A Medina.


Papers Published

  1. Medina, Miguel A. Jr. and Buzun, Jennifer, CONTINUOUS SIMULATION OF RECEIVING WATER QUALITY TRANSIENTS., Water Resources Bulletin, vol. 17 no. 4 (1981), pp. 549 - 557 .
    (last updated on 2007/04/09)

    Abstract:
    This paper presents solutions to the one-dimensional, transient conservation of mass equations for the coupled biochemical oxygen demand-dissolved oxygen reactions, based on the principle of superposition, for continuously discharging plane sources. The solutions are applied within the framework of a continuous simulation model to allow the derivation of water quality frequency curves and frequency histograms of consecutive hourly dissolved oxygen violations, for any desired standard. Receiving water response is determined for waste inputs from urban wet weather, dry weather, and upstream sources.

    Keywords:
    MATHEMATICAL MODELS;WATER SUPPLY - Water Quality;RUNOFF;

 

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