Citation:

FRICK, W. E. ENTRAINMENT MODELS. Presented at Invited Lecture at the Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, March 29, 2006.

Impact/Purpose:

A main objective of this task is to combine empirical and physical mechanisms in a model, known as Visual Beach, that

• is user-friendly
• includes point and non-point sources of contamination
• includes the latest bacterial decay mechanisms
• incorporates real-time and web-based ambient and atmospheric and aquatic conditions
• and has a predictive capability of up to three days to help avert potential beach closures.

The suite of predictive capabilities for this software application can enhance the utility of new methodology for analysis of indicator pathogens by identifying times that represent the highest probability of bacterial contamination. Successful use of this model will provide a means to direct timely collection of monitoring samples, strengthening the value of the short turnaround time for sampling. Additionally, in some cases of known point sources of bacteria, such as waste water treatment plant discharges, the model can be applied to help guide operational controls to help prevent resulting beach closures.

Description:

This presentation presented information on entrainment models. Entrainment models use entrainment hypotheses to express the continuity equation. The advantage is that plume boundaries are known. A major disadvantage is that the problems that can be solved are rather simple. The purpose of this presentation is to argue that simple entrainment models can help to refine complex fluid dynamics models.

Record Details:

Record Type:DOCUMENT( PRESENTATION/ SLIDE)

Product Published Date:03/29/2006

Record Last Revised:06/21/2006

Record ID: 151530

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