This revised book has two aims: to introduce basic concepts of environmental modelling and to facilitate the application of the concepts using modern numerical tools such as MATLAB. It is targeted at all natural scientists dealing with the environment.

Many chapters updated and extended Updated MATLAB command and index New chapter on numerical methods Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Part I: Primer to Modeling with MATLAB.- Introduction.- Fundamentals of Modeling, Principles and MATLAB,. Transport.- Transport Solutions.- Transport with Decay and Degradation.- Transport and Sorption.- Transport and Kinetics.- Transport and Equilibrium Reactions.- Ordinary Differential Equations - Dynamical Systems.- Parameter Estimation.- Part II: Advanced Modelling using MATLAB.- Flow Modeling.- Groundwater Drawdown by Pumping.- Aquifer Baseflow and 2D Meshing.- Potential and Flow Visualization.- Streamfunction and Complex Potential.- 2D and 3D Transport Solutions (Gaussian Puffs and Plumes).- Image Processing and Geo-referencing.- Compartment Graphs and Linear Systems.- Nonlinear Systems.- Graphical User Interfaces.- Numerical Methods - Finite Differences