Introduction to pollutant fate and transport in the environment, including dimensional analysis; molecular and turbulent diffusion; Taylor dispersion and its extensions; boundary layers and interfacial transport; chemical reaction; and tailoring analytical and numerical models to real-world problems, including parameter optimization and statistical approaches for model evaluation.

• The objective of this course is to provide students with the mathematical skills required to develop and statistically evaluate models of pollutant fate and transport in the environment.
• Formulate conservation equations appropriately tailored to the environmental problem of interest
• Solve these equations analytically or numerically
• Estimate transport parameters using optimization algorithms
• Evaluate the model using statistical measures of parsimony and goodness of fit
• Apply transport theory to real-world problems