Groundwater Optimization Handbook: Flow, Contaminant Transport, and Conjunctive Management

By Richard Peralta

This how-to handbook thoroughly introduces you to groundwater systems analysis and simulation-optimization (S-O) approaches appropriate for most groundwater problems. It covers optimization terminology, principles, and techniques (deterministic, stochastic, multiobjective), and S-O algorithms used to successfully resolve real-world groundwater quantity and quality management problems, often at significantly reduced expense. Using numerous flowcharts and examples, the book offers guidance for formulating and solving optimization problems, creating or selecting appropriate S-O models, and adapting and implementing optimal strategies for managing flow, contamination, and conjunctive use. Such strategies (up to 57% better than strategies developed without S-O modeling) are implementable or provide comparative performance metrics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439838062
• ISBN13: 9781439838068
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"