Fundamentals of Environmental Transport Processes

Environmental engineers must accurately predict how substances, from vital nutrients to harmful pollutants, move through natural systems. This foundational course introduces the mathematical and physical principles required for environmental modeling. You will learn to apply fundamental conservation laws and mass balance techniques to analyze transport phenomena across water, air, and soil environments. This knowledge is essential for assessing environmental risk and designing remediation strategies. What you'll learn: * Understand the fundamental conservation laws governing mass, momentum, and energy transport. * Apply control volume analysis to formulate mass balance equations for environmental systems. * Analyze the mechanisms of advection and dispersion to predict pollutant movement in aquatic and atmospheric media. * Practice integrating reaction kinetics (zero, first, and second order) into transport models for fate prediction. * Configure simplified steady-state and transient models for initial assessment of environmental risk. The course begins by defining key terminology and conservation principles before moving into detailed analysis of advective and dispersive processes. You will then learn to combine these mechanisms with chemical and biological reactions to solve practical environmental problems. This course is designed for beginners in environmental science or engineering who need a solid, written foundation in transport modeling. No prior experience in advanced environmental modeling is required. Start building your foundation in environmental transport analysis today.