Fernando H.J. Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Volume I: Overview and Fundamentals

CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013. 635 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-4398-1670-7.With major implications for applied physics, engineering, and the natural and social sciences, the rapidly growing area of environmental fluid dynamics focuses on the interactions of human activities, environment, and fluid motion. A landmark for the field, the two-volume Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics presents the basic principles, fundamental flow processes, modeling techniques, and measurement methods used in the study of environmental motions. It also offers critical discussions of environmental sustainability related to engineering.The handbook features 81 chapters written by 135 renowned researchers from around the world. Covering environmental, policy, biological, and chemical aspects, it tackles important cross-disciplinary topics such as sustainability, ecology, pollution, micrometeorology, and limnology.Volume One: Overview and Fundamentals provides a comprehensive overview of the basic principles. It starts with general topics that emphasize the relevance of environmental fluid dynamics research in society, public policy, infrastructure, quality of life, security, and the law. It then discusses established and emerging focus areas. The volume also examines the sub-mesoscale flow processes and phenomena that form the building blocks of environmental motions, with emphasis on turbulent motions and their role in heat, momentum, and species transport.As communities face existential challenges posed by climate change, rapid urbanization, and scarcity of water and energy, the study of environmental fluid dynamics becomes increasingly relevant. This volume is a valuable resource for students, researchers, and policymakers working to better understand the fundamentals of environmental motions and how they affect and are influenced by anthropogenic activities.Contents
Overview and General Topics
Environmental Fluid Dynamics
Research in EFD and Its Policy Implications
Interdisciplinary Dynamics in EFD Research
Climate Change and Its Effects on Environmental Fluid Systems
Sustainability Implications
Air Quality and Management
Forecasting and Management of Coastal Water Quality
Soil and Aquifer Management
Security and Environmental Fluid Dynamics
Large-Scale Disasters
Risk Assessment
Environmental Law
Focus Areas for Study of Natural Systems
Physical Limnology
Microbial and Ecological Fluid Dynamics
Micro- and Nano-Scale Flows Relevant to the Environment
Volcanic Flows
Buoyant Outflows to the Coastal Ocean
Hydrodynamics of Coastal Circulation
Ice Dynamics and Transport
Fundamental Flow Phenomena and Turbulence
Turbulence in the Environment
Turbulent Dispersion
Stratified Hydraulics
Hydraulics of Vegetated Canopies
Canopy Turbulence
Jets and Plumes
Stratified Wakes and Their Signatures
Gravity Currents and Intrusions
Internal Gravity Waves
Rotation Effects in Environmental Flows
Vortex Dynamics
Surface Waves in Coastal Waters
Drops and Bubbles in the Environment
Particle-Laden Flows
Sediment Transport
Flows Involving Phase Change
Turbulent Gas Transfer across Air–Water Interfaces
Convection
Convection (Rotating Fluids)
Double-Diffusive Instabilities
Shallow Shear Flows in Surface Water
Shallow Granular Flows
Turbidity Currents and Powder Snow Avalanches
Mechanics of Debris Flows and Rock Avalanches