Analytical water quality model for a sinusoidally varying BOD discharge concentration

Water Research

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1207-1215

  Alshawabkeh, Akram ^a   Adrian, Donald Dean ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical solution; BOD; Complex variables; Decay; Dispersion; Laplace transform; Modeling; Sinusoidal loading; Stream

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; WATER QUALITY;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DISPERSION; LAPLACE TRANSFORM; WATER QUALITY MODEL;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DECAY (ORGANIC); LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; COMPLEX VARIABLES; SINUSOIDAL LOADING;

WATER QUALITY;

EID: 0030615928     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(96)00384-3     Document Type: Article

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