Modelling for environmental engineering students using MATLAB and SIMULINK

Author

Cathers, B. ; Boyd, M.J. ; Craig, E. ; Chadwick, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Civil & Min. Eng., Wollongong Univ., NSW, Australia

fYear

1996

fDate

3-5 Jul 1996

Firstpage

261

Lastpage

268

Abstract

A teaching project is being developed with the aim of enabling students to quickly develop their own simulation models of water based eco-systems without the need to write computer programs. The vehicle for this is the commercial software MATLAB and SIMULINK. Initially, the method is being applied to model dissolved oxygen and BOD in a water body receiving a waste discharge. Simulations can include reaeration, nitrification, photosynthesis and respiration. Students are supplied with field data and their task is to identify the dominant processes, configure an appropriate model, select values for the kinetic constants and carry out model runs

Keywords

computer aided instruction; digital simulation; ecology; engineering education; environmental science computing; mathematics computing; software packages; teaching; water pollution; MATLAB; SIMULINK; commercial software; computer programs; dissolved oxygen modelling; environmental engineering students; field data; kinetic constants; nitrification; photosynthesis; reaeration; respiration; simulation models; teaching project; waste discharge; water based eco-systems; Biological system modeling; Chemical engineering; Chemical processes; Civil engineering; Computational modeling; Education; Engineering students; Finite difference methods; MATLAB; Mathematical model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multi Media Engineering Education, 1996., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, Vic.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3173-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMEE.1996.570271

Filename

570271