Fluid Mechanics of Environmental Interfaces

Preface
Preface of the first edition
Biographies of the authors

Part one – Preliminaries

1. Environmental fluid mechanics: Current issues and future outlook
B. Cushman-Roisin, C. Gualtieri & D.T. Mihailovic

Part two – Processes at atmospheric interfaces

2. Point source atmospheric diffusion
B. Rajkovic, I. Arsenic & Z. Grsic

3. Air–sea interaction
V. Djurdjevic & B. Rajkovic

4. Modelling of flux exchanges between heterogeneous surfaces and atmosphere
D.T. Mihailovic & D. Kapor

5. Desert dust uptake-transport and deposition mechanisms – impacts of dust on radiation, clouds and precipitation
G. Kallos, P. Katsafados & C. Spyrou

Part three – Processes at water interfaces

6. Gas-transfer at unsheared free-surfaces
C. Gualtieri & G. Pulci Doria

7. Advective diffusion of air bubbles in turbulent water flows
H. Chanson

8. Exchanges at the bed sediments-water column interface
F.A. Bombardelli & P.A. Moreno

9. Surface water and streambed sediment interaction: The hyporheic exchange
D. Tonina

10. Environmental fluid dynamics of tidal bores: Theoretical considerations and field observations
H. Chanson

Part four – Processes at interfaces of biotic systems

11. Transport processes in the soil-vegetation-lower atmosphere system
D.T. Mihailovic

12. Turbulence and wind above and within the forest canopy
B. Lalic & D.T. Mihailovic

13. Flow and mass transport in vegetated surface waters
Y. Tanino

14. Uniform flow and boundary layers over rigid vegetation
P. Gualtieri & G. Pulci Doria

15. Mass transport in aquatic environments
G. Nishihara & J.D. Ackerman

16. Maps serving as the combined coupling between interacting environmental interfaces and their behavior in the presence of dynamical noise
D.T. Mihailovic & I. Balaž

Author index
Subject index

Biography

Carlo Gualtieri is currently Assistant Professor in Environmental Hydraulics at the Hydraulic, Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering Department (DIGA) of the University of Napoli Federico II. He received a B.Sc. in Hydraulic Engineering at the University of Napoli Federico II, where he also received a M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering. Prof. Gualtieri published 102 peer reviewed scientific papers, including 25 publications in scientific journals, 53 papers in conference proceedings, and 24 other refereed publications in subjects related to environmental hydraulics and computational environmental fluid mechanics, with over 80 papers, experimental investigations of two-phase flows, water supply networks management and environmental risk. He is co-author of 2 textbooks on Hydraulics and author of a textbook on Environmental Hydraulics. He co-edited the books Fluid Mechanics of Environmental Interfaces (Taylor & Francis, 2008) and Advances in Environmental Fluid Mechanics (World Scientific, 2010). Since 2006 he is a member of the Editorial Board of Environmental Modelling and Software (Elsevier) and since 2008 of Environmental Fluid Mechanics (Springer). He contributed as reviewer to several scientific journals (e.g. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Environmental Modeling and Software, Journal of Environmental Engineering ASCE, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering ASCE, Journal of Hydraulic Research, Experiments in Fluids, Advances in Water Resources, Water Resources Research, etc.) and as external examiner for Ph.D. thesis in foreign countries. He is co-organizer of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics session at the International Environmental Modelling & Software Society (iEMSs) biennial conferences since 2004. He is also active as expert reviewer for research funding agencies in several countries. He is member of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) and of the iEMSs.Dragutin T. Mihailovic is Professor of Meteorology and Biophysics at the Department of Vegetable and Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He is also Professor of Modelling Physical Processes at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences at the same university and Visiting Professor at the State University of New York at Albany, NY (USA). He teaches various theoretical and numerical meteorology courses to Physics and Agriculture students. He received a B.Sc. in Physics at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, his M.Sc. in Dynamic Meteorology at the University of Belgrade and defended his Ph.D. Thesis in Dynamic Meteorology at the University of Belgrade. He is head of the Center for Meteorology and Environmental Modelling (CMEM) which is the part of the Association of Centers for Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Studies (ACIMSI) of the University of Novi Sad where he has teaching activities. He is also head of the Center for Meteorology and Environmental Predictions, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. His main research interests are the surface processes and boundary layer meteorology with application to air pollution modelling and agriculture. Recently, he has developed an interest for (i) analysis of occurrence of the deterministic chaos at environmental interfaces and (ii) modeling the complex biophysical systems using the category theory and nonlinear dynamics. He has over 60 articles in international peer-reviewed journals; 405 citations in SCI journals; edited 4 books (Taylor & Francis, World Scientific, Nova Science Publishers); 15 invited lectures in worldwide institutions and universities and 4 plenary talks.

"After reading this book, I rate it to be an extremely useful tool to keep on a bookshelf, both for occasional checks for concepts or data and as study and reading material for graduate and postgraduate researchers. The editors and the authors are to be commended for their effort to create a conceptual order and study path in the vast thematic area of fluid processes at environmental interfaces."
Andrea Marion, University of Podova, Italy, in: Journal of Hydraulic Research Vol. 52, No. 4 (2014), pp. 580-581

"Overall, the text is an excellent treatment of the fluid mechanics of interfaces within the hydrosphere and the atmosphere. The monograph reads well as a cohesive text, providing insight to the student and the scholar. The book will make an excellent addition to the student’s or the researcher’s library. I look forward to applying the text the next time I teach environmental fluid mechanics; it will significantly improve my treatment of exchange at all boundaries of fluid flows."
Scott A. Socolofsky, College Station, TX, USA, in: European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids 45 (2014) 89