Customer Reviews

Surface Water Quality Modeling

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I found this book to be extremely useful. It covers the necessary issues of surface water modeling, such as reaction kinetics, mixed vs non-mixed systems, a variety of possible contaminants and indicators, as well as a variety of surface water body types. Each part of the book is a series of lectures containing theory as well as practical modeling methods. The text is clear and flows well, with occasional comical examples and literary quotes.

This is a great book. In fact, it is the best book if like me, you don't have time to follow a teacher-led course. Stephen Chapra has authored/co-authored several engineering texts, and this one is just as well-written as the others. My need was for a text which had the right balance of theory and practical implementation details. Since I develop water-quality & hydrodynamics software, I also was concerned with numerical methods issues. This book met my needs. Chapra has a very enjoyable style. I like his sometimes 'anecdotal' style, whereby he gives you historical or background blurbs which help view things in their proper context.

** One of the rare qualities of Chapra's books is to provide both the mathematical modeling theory, and the practical sampling and statistical tools to implement them with real data. This is so often overlooked by other authors.

I look forward to his next book on numerical methods with Matlab & Excel.

A very practical and well written text. It is designed to give you a modular approach to surface water modelling. Objectives for each chapter are clearly identified.

Pro: I knew the book is excellent because I have read a major portion before purchase. I bought it because it is an excellent reference book for water quality studies. The book is no longer in print but Amazon sold a copy to me in SI unit.

Con: Amazon packing is terrible and caused multiple dog ears to my new book. Can Amazon be more professional in the packaging department please.

The book is in great condition and appears to contain a plethora of necessary information for modeling lakes, streams, etc. Unfortunately, I have not sat down to read this book yet because limnology is not covered within the material of this text, and a solid understanding of that aspect is required prior to complex applications such as water-modeling.

I read this book twice, an awesome book for environmental engineers especially if you are studying Mixing Pollutant in Aquatic Systems.
You need to have some basic knowledge in environmental hydraulic to get the most benefit from this book, although this book reviews them all at the beginning.