Università Roma Tre

Pollutant dynamics in water bodies is a teaching aimed at providing a deep knowledge on transport phenomena of active and passive, conservative and reactive pollutants, in natural water bodies, and at giving their mathematical formulation. The course also aims at consolidating the skills required for the developments of numerical models for the solution of the mathematical models introduced during the teaching.
The teaching belongs to the “Ingegneria Civile Per la Protezione dai Rischi Naturali” master course, which aims at training engineers towards high professional levels in the fields of the protection of both environment and civil infrastructures from hydrogeological and seismic hazards.
In such framework the teaching aims at defining conceptual models with increasing complexity for the representation of advective/diffusive/reactive transport phenomena in water.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: 1) examine a practical case of propagation of a pollutant in a water body; 2) verify the availability of existing formulations for a proper modelling of the phenomenon at hand; when this is not the case, they will be able to formulate a new one; 3) design and/or interpret experiments and dye studies aimed at determining values for the parameters of the derived model; 4) numerically solve the model, explicitly accounting for sources of uncertainty and their weight on the final result.