This book is a comprehensive text in the field of environmental modeling and computer techniques in the environmental sciences. It includes a collection of invited review papers covering all the environmental modeling topics. Each chapter was authored by a leading scientist in the field and was written to provide the reader with an organized and consistent approach to the field of mathematical and numerical simulation of environmental phenomena. In addition to the discussion of the mathematical, numerical, physical, chemical and biological aspects of environmental phenomena, the book provides a critical review of available software for environment simulations.
Professor Carlos Brebbia is the founder of the Wessex Institute of Technology, a postgraduate research centre. He was born in Argentina & has a PhD from Southampton University in England. He worked in research and academia in England and the U.S., in the field of engineering, before founding the Wessex Institute.