A CFD Modeling Approach for Municipal Sewer System Design Optimization to Minimize Emissions into Receiving Water Body

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2053-2069

  Chen, Zhi ^a   Han, Sangsoo ^a   Zhou, Fa Yi ^b   Wang, Ke ^c  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

^b CITY OF EDMONTON   (Canada)

^c DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

3D numerical model; Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO); Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Flow characteristics; Particle tracking; Water quality

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; COMBINED SEWERS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; SEWAGE; SURFACE WATERS; TURBULENCE MODELS; URBAN GROWTH; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

3-D NUMERICAL MODELING; COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOWS; FLOW CHARAC-TERISTICS; K-EPSILON TURBULENCE MODEL; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PARTICLE TRACKING; RECEIVING WATER BODIES; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3-D) MODELING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW MODELING; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE MOTION; SEWER NETWORK; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; URBAN AREA; WATER QUALITY;

ALBERTA; CANADA; EDMONTON;

EID: 84876425258     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-013-0272-9     Document Type: Article

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