For the successful completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• Explain the importance of using models in environmental engineering, the movement of nutrients in an ecosystem, the reaction for the growth of organisms in an ecosystem model and the limitations of using ecosystem models.
• Describe the stages of developing models, the mass balance equations for advective, dispersive and mixed transport systems with reactions, the importance of sediment transfer, the phenomenon of eutrophication and its impacts to the ecosystems, the dynamic interdependence of organisms in an ecosystem and the importance of convetional pollutants to public health.
• To categorize the various environmental models and identify their use and understand the significance of the limiting factor for the eutrophication of systems.
• Determine biochemical parameters for natural systems, the time and concentration of pollutants under steady state, the kinetic of reactions from experimental data.
• Use simple eutrophication models to evaluate the trophic status of a lake, use the mass balance equations of conventional pollutants for rivers and estuaries.

• Independent study
• Search, analyze and synthesize data and information, using the necessary technologies
• Design and Project Management

1. Introduction to the methodology of modeling environmental systems
2. Transport Phenomena
3. Dispersive systems
4. Advective systems
5. Advective-dispersive systems
6. Compartmentalization
7. Sediment Transport
8. Parameters computation
9. Simple Transport Models
10. Chemical Reaction Kinetics
11. Eutrophication
12. Ecosystem Models
13. Conventional Pollutants in Rivers and Lakes

• Specialized Project Management Software
• Support Learning Process via the e-class platform
• Creation and use of environmental models
• Use of GIS maps

Assessment Method

I. Written final exam (70%) comprising of:

• Solving problems with quantitative data
• Comparative evaluation of modeling results

• Environmental Modeling, του J.L. Schnoor, 1996
• Aquatic Chemistry του Ν.Π. Νικολαΐδη, 2005