Fluid mechanics of environmental interfaces [electronic resource]

Treats exchange processes occurring at the interfaces between atmosphere and the sea surface, and atmosphere and land surface - including the effect of vegetation, transport of dust and dispersion of

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gualtieri, Carlo (Author), Mihailovic, Dragutin T. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ;New York : Taylor & Francis , c2008
Series:Balkema-proceedings and monographs in engineering, water, and earth sciences
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Online Access:NetLibrary
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Environmental fluid mechanics : current issues and future outlook
  • 2. Point source atmospheric diffusion
  • 3. Air-sea interaction
  • 4. Modelling of flux exchanges between heterogeneous surfaces and atmosphere
  • 5. Desert dust uptake-transport and deposition mechanisms : impacts of dust on radiation, clouds, and precipitation
  • 6. Gas-transfer at unsheared free surfaces
  • 7. Advective diffusion of air bubbles in turbulent water flows
  • Transport processes in the soil-vegetation-lower atmosphere system
  • 8. Turbulence within the forest canopy
  • Vegetated flow in open channels
  • 9. Mass transport in aquatic environments