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Dispersion in Rivers and Streams

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Water Quality Modelling for Rivers and Streams

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The water quality problems of rivers and streams are controlled by the natural behaviour of the water body, which is interpreted by means of proper terms and expressions of free surface hydraulics. Pollution transport is due primarily to advection, but there are many situations in which dispersion plays an important role and cannot be neglected. In the mathematical models, the effect of dispersion is accounted by means of the dispersion coefficient, for the evaluation of which several procedures are proposed, supported by experimental studies.

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  1. Water Research Institute, Area Ricerca Montelibretti, Rome, Italy

    Marcello Benedini

  2. Laboratory of Reclamation Works and Water Resources Management, National Technical University of Athens School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Zografou, Athens, Greece

    George Tsakiris

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Benedini, M., Tsakiris, G. (2013). Dispersion in Rivers and Streams. In: Water Quality Modelling for Rivers and Streams. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 70. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5509-3_5

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