Brian Adjetey Boye

Integrated Modelling of Water Quality in Rivers and Estuaries

Accurately Modelling Hydrodynamic Processes, Faecal Indicator Organisms and Related Parameters using GPU Computing

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Produktbeschreibung

In this research study, the Ribble Estuary and Fylde Coast model was refined to more accurately predict bathing water quality and use parameters which give a better representation of the existing physical and bio-chemical processes. Empirical formulation linking the mortality (decay) rate of bacterial water quality indicators to environmental conditions such as solar irradiation, turbidity, temperature and salinity was added to the numerical code. The linked boundary between the 1-D and 2-D domains of the numerical model was improved by removing large overlapped linked region. An existing numerical code was rewritten to take advantage of the parallel computing capability of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). This was tested on the Ribble Estuary and the Thames Estuary model. This research study improved the ability to predict bathing water quality accurately by introducing more realistic representation of environmental conditions and using parallel computing. This improved the ability to carry real time forecasting of bathing water quality and hence prevent failure to meet the requirements of the EU Bathing Water Directive.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9783659599675
• ISBN-10: 3659599670
• Artikelnr.: 41464419

Autorenporträt

A civil & structural engineer with experience in solving challenging problems from the design of tunnels and earth structures to water quality management. Numerical and computational modelling specialist with programming experience in Fortran, C++, CUDA, MPI and OpenMP on HPC and GPU hardware using Finite Element and Finite Difference Schemes.