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Mth 125 - Modeling With Exponential Functions, Stivi Manoku
Mth 125 - Modeling With Exponential Functions, Stivi Manoku
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The file includes a variety of problems that emphasize the importance of modeling exponential growth and/or radioactive decay. Through different exercises and problems, the assignment goal is to improve their comprehension of exponential functions and hone their problem-solving abilities.
Models For Decision-Making - Second Edition, Steven Cosares, Fred Rispoli
Models For Decision-Making - Second Edition, Steven Cosares, Fred Rispoli
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Decision-Making often refers to a multi-stage process that starts with some form of introspection or reflection about a situation in which a person or group of people find themselves. These ruminations usually lead to series of questions that need to be answered, or to a set of data that needs to be collected and analyzed, or to some calculations that need to be performed before someone can be in a position to make informed decisions and take appropriate actions.
We provide some simple examples of Quantitative Models, which are often found in a decision-making situation. We focus on the use …
Understanding The Impacts Of Freshwater Fluxes On The Biogeochemistry Of The Coastal Arctic: A Case Study Of Prudhoe Bay, Francesca Lingo
Understanding The Impacts Of Freshwater Fluxes On The Biogeochemistry Of The Coastal Arctic: A Case Study Of Prudhoe Bay, Francesca Lingo
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The Arctic region, undergoing significant environmental changes due to rapid warming, faces alterations in air temperatures, melting permafrost, declining sea ice, and changes in riverine inputs. These shifts have profound implications for Arctic coastal ecology and biogeochemical cycles. This study, focusing on Alaska's North Slope, explores the influence of freshwater fluxes on water optical properties, vital for accurate satellite remote sensing interpretations. Our approach combined field measurements, existing data, and satellite remote sensing retrievals to identify biogeochemical gradients and their seasonal and interannual variations. A novel finding was the unique CDOM composition in Prudhoe Bay, characterized by a lower molecular …
Frozen In Time: A Numerical Modeling Approach To The Study Of Ice Bearing Planetesimals Through Carbonaceous Chondrites, Jasmine M. Bayron
Frozen In Time: A Numerical Modeling Approach To The Study Of Ice Bearing Planetesimals Through Carbonaceous Chondrites, Jasmine M. Bayron
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Icy planetesimals are significant objects of study for meteoritics, planetary science, and astrobiology due to their connections to the origins of life and liquid water on Earth. An existing closed system aqueous alteration model was adapted to simulate several scenarios involving early Solar System geologic processes occurring in an icy planetesimal interior. The model described in this work has been developed not only to test the validity of constraints currently thought to apply to CM1 parent bodies, but to directly compare the implications of these constraints for the isotopic composition and the modal mineralogy of carbonaceous chondrites. Isotopic ratios of …
Models For Decision-Making, Steven Cosares
Models For Decision-Making, Steven Cosares
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Wdnetxl: Efficient Research Transfer For Management, Planning And Design Of Water Distribution Networks, Daniele Laucelli, Luigi Berardi, Orazio Giustolisi
Wdnetxl: Efficient Research Transfer For Management, Planning And Design Of Water Distribution Networks, Daniele Laucelli, Luigi Berardi, Orazio Giustolisi
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
The WDNetXL system (www.hydroinformatics.it) is aimed at promoting transfer of research achievements in water distribution network (WDN) analysis, planning and management to practitioners, students and researchers. In order to facilitate the technology transfer, the WDNetXL functions are integrated into the worldwide known MS-Excel data-management environment. Advanced hydraulic modeling and topological analyses of WDN are combined with efficient optimization strategies to make readily available the latest, even customized, decision support tools for planning and management of WDNs. All these features make WDNetXL of practical support for technicians as well as a privileged platform to test innovations coming from research in WDN …
Software Tools For Large Scale Interactive Hydrodynamic Modeling, Gennadii Donchyts, Fedor Baart, Arthur Van Dam, Bert Jagers, Sander Van Der Pijl
Software Tools For Large Scale Interactive Hydrodynamic Modeling, Gennadii Donchyts, Fedor Baart, Arthur Van Dam, Bert Jagers, Sander Van Der Pijl
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
Running hydrodynamic models interactively allows both visual exploration and change of model state during simulation. One of the main characteristics of an interactive model is that it should provide immediate feedback to the user, for example respond to changes in model state or view settings. For this reason, such features are usually only available for models with a relatively small number of computational cells, which are used mainly for demonstration and educational purposes. It would be useful if interactive modeling would also work for models typically used in consultancy projects involving large scale simulations. This results in a number of …
Modeling Of District Metered Areas With Relatively High Leakage Rate. The Case Study Of Kalipoli’S Dma, Antonios Bakogiannis, Athanasios Tzamtzis
Modeling Of District Metered Areas With Relatively High Leakage Rate. The Case Study Of Kalipoli’S Dma, Antonios Bakogiannis, Athanasios Tzamtzis
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
The article reviews the modelling of District Metered Areas (DMAs) with relatively high leakage rate. As a generally recognised approach in modelling of leakage does not exist, modelling of leakage by enginners and other researchers usually takes place by dividing the whole leakage rate evenly to all available nodes of the model. In this article, a new methodology is proposed to determine the nodal leakage by using a hydraulic model. The proposed methodology takes into consideration the IWA water balance methodology, the Minimum Night Flow (MNF) analysis, the number of connections related to each node and the marerial of pipes. …
Development Of A Cloud Computing Application For Water Resources Modelling And Optimization Based On Open Source Software, Blagoj Delipetrev, Andreja Jonoski, Dimitri P. Solomatine
Development Of A Cloud Computing Application For Water Resources Modelling And Optimization Based On Open Source Software, Blagoj Delipetrev, Andreja Jonoski, Dimitri P. Solomatine
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
Cloud computing is the latest advancement in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) that provides computing as a service or delivers computation, software, data access, storage service without end-user knowledge of the physical location and system configuration. Cloud computing, service oriented architecture and web geographic information systems are new technologies for development of the cloud computing application for water resources modelling and optimization. The cloud application is deployed and tested in a distributed computer environment running on three virtual machines (VMs). The cloud application has five web services for: (1) spatial data infrastructure – 1 (SDI), (2) SDI – 2, (3) …
Stochastic And Deterministic Parameter Estimation Of Coupled Bacteria-Sediment Fate And Transport In Streams, Tri Le, Arash Massoudieh
Stochastic And Deterministic Parameter Estimation Of Coupled Bacteria-Sediment Fate And Transport In Streams, Tri Le, Arash Massoudieh
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
E. Coli is widely used as an indicator organism to assess the risk of pathogenic bacteria in water bodies. Due to their strong association with suspended and bed sediments, the fate and transport of micro-organisms in water bodies is strongly controlled by sediment dynamics. It has been shown that bed sediments can contain orders of magnitude larger pathogen concentration than the water column and these sediment-associated bacteria can be released into the water column as a result of high flow velocities that cause sediment resuspension. In this presentation parameter estimation of a mechanistic model of bacteria-sediment interaction using a deterministic …
Hybrid Control-Oriented Modeling Of Combined Sewer Networks: Barcelona Case Study, Bernat Joseph-Duran, Carlos Ocampo-Martinez, Gabriela Cembrano
Hybrid Control-Oriented Modeling Of Combined Sewer Networks: Barcelona Case Study, Bernat Joseph-Duran, Carlos Ocampo-Martinez, Gabriela Cembrano
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
A hybrid linear model for real-time optimization-based control of a combined sewer network has been developed to be used for the minimization of pollution during storm events. The model takes into account delays and attenuation in sewers together with piecewise linear approximations for flow over weirs, overflows in junctions and flow re-entering the network after overflows. Using the proposed model, an Optimal Control Problem (OCP) is formulated, which can be efficiently solved by means of a mixed integer linear or quadratic programming problem. The performance of a Model Predictive Control (MPC) strategy solving consecutive OCPs is assessed by means of …
The Benthic Geoecology Model Within The Modular System For Shelves And Coasts (Mossco), Mohammad Hassan Nasermoaddeli, Carsten Lemmen, Richard Hofmeister, Frank Koesters, Knut Klingbeil
The Benthic Geoecology Model Within The Modular System For Shelves And Coasts (Mossco), Mohammad Hassan Nasermoaddeli, Carsten Lemmen, Richard Hofmeister, Frank Koesters, Knut Klingbeil
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
The Modular System for Shelves and Coasts (MOSSCO) integrates physical, biological, chemical and geological models of shelves and coasts for the North Sea and Baltic Sea in an exchangeable way. The MOSSCO software forms a coupling framework for exchanging data and models, which distinguishes between physical domains (Earth System compartments such as the benthic and pelagic zone) and processes (such as benthic geochemistry, physical erosion and biological stabilization). Information exchange across physical domains with different grids and time steps are managed using the ESMF (Earth System Modelling Framework), whereas coupling of processes within individual modules is achieved using FABM (Framework …
Dynamic Condition Approach To Study The Self-Purification Capacity Of Colombian Water Bodies Case: Cauca River And Salvajina Dam, Alberto Galvis, Isabel Cristina Hurtado, Carlos Martínez-Cano, Juan Gabriel Urrego
Dynamic Condition Approach To Study The Self-Purification Capacity Of Colombian Water Bodies Case: Cauca River And Salvajina Dam, Alberto Galvis, Isabel Cristina Hurtado, Carlos Martínez-Cano, Juan Gabriel Urrego
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
The impact on water resources caused by municipal wastewater discharge has become a critical and ever-growing environmental and public health problem. In order to be able to efficiently address this problem, it is important to adopt an integrated approach that includes a decrease in and control of contamination at its source. These principles have been successfully applied in the industrial sector and now these concepts are also being applied to integrated water resources management. In this context the conceptual model of the Three Steps Strategic Approach (3-SSA) was developed, consisting of: 1) minimization and prevention, 2) treatment for reuse and …
Towards A Decision Support System For Flood Management In A River Basin, Luis Vieira, Jose Pinho, Dirk Schwanenberg
Towards A Decision Support System For Flood Management In A River Basin, Luis Vieira, Jose Pinho, Dirk Schwanenberg
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
The world is experiencing a countless number of impressive and devastating floods causing a range of health impacts and risks with hundreds of thousands of people losing their lives or becoming homeless in a matter of hours. EU Floods Directive requires the developing of flood hazard maps, which may include information on hydrological and hydrodynamics characteristics of vulnerable regions, i.e. inundated areas and river flow discharges. Prediction of flood events can accurately be achieved by applying mathematical modelling for describing rainfall-runoff phenomena as well as surface waters hydrodynamics. Moreover, reservoirs can be properly operated in order to minimize flood events …
Overcoming Hurdles In Real Time Modeling, Thomas Walski
Overcoming Hurdles In Real Time Modeling, Thomas Walski
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
Real time modeling and control sounds easy. Get data from the SCADA system, run the appropriate model and push the results back to the controls. What could be difficult about that? Plenty. Anyone attempting to do this work probably has run into some of the institutional, technical and personal hurdles in actually making this sort of system work. This paper will discuss the hurdles and ways to deal with them. The most daunting hurdle is that of security. Most modeling happens on computers connected to the internet. Water utility managers are justifiably terrified of all the bad things that lurk …
Analyzing And Modelling Sewage Discharge Process Of Typical Area Using Time Series Analysis Method, Sisi Zhou, Pengfei Du, Yong Pang, Shuyi Li
Analyzing And Modelling Sewage Discharge Process Of Typical Area Using Time Series Analysis Method, Sisi Zhou, Pengfei Du, Yong Pang, Shuyi Li
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
This study is conducted to develop a mathematical model for typical sewage discharge area like residential area, commercial district and institutional area. An approach of time series analysis is applied to build the model involving model selection, parameter estimation, simulation and prediction. The description of sewage discharge process is divided into two parts: Periodic change and stationary random process. Periodic change process is simulated by harmonic analysis which composites a number of trigonometric function together. Stationary random process is described using Stationary time series including six steps: stationary test of the series; calculation of autocorrelation function and partial autocorrelation function …
Development Of Real-Time Drinking Water Distribution Systems (Dwds) Modeling Technology Using The Epanet Extended Period Simulation (Eps) Modeling Toolkit, Sudhir Kshirsagar, Walter Grayman, Ben Chenevey, Aditi Shetti, Saurabh Gupta, Benjamin Bedinghaus, Steve Mylroie
Development Of Real-Time Drinking Water Distribution Systems (Dwds) Modeling Technology Using The Epanet Extended Period Simulation (Eps) Modeling Toolkit, Sudhir Kshirsagar, Walter Grayman, Ben Chenevey, Aditi Shetti, Saurabh Gupta, Benjamin Bedinghaus, Steve Mylroie
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
Real-time hydraulic and water quality modeling involves the modification of the EPS network model every few minutes to reflect the SCADA data, and this paper shares how this type of real-time modeling framework, HydroTrek, was built on top of the EPS foundation provided by the EPANET toolkit. The real-life applications of HydroTrek posed some interesting modeling challenges when the hydraulic time-step was reduced to match the SCADA time-step of one to five minutes. For example, a physical pump usually does not instantaneously, but a model pump does. In a sensitive network, that can mean a significant mismatch between the SCADA …
On The Modeling And Real-Time Control Of Urban Drainage Systems: A Survey, Luis Antonio Garcia Gutierrez, Eduardo Escobar, Duvan Téllez, Julian Barreiro Gómez, Nicanor Quijano Silva, Carlos Ocampo-Martinez
On The Modeling And Real-Time Control Of Urban Drainage Systems: A Survey, Luis Antonio Garcia Gutierrez, Eduardo Escobar, Duvan Téllez, Julian Barreiro Gómez, Nicanor Quijano Silva, Carlos Ocampo-Martinez
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
Drainage network are complex systems composed by several processes including recollection, transport, storing, wastewater and/or rain treatment, and return of the water to a receiving environment. Urban drainage systems (UDS) involve most of these processes inside cities and can be either separate or combined systems, depending on how wastewater and rainwater are managed. The way UDS manage the wastewater is through the convenient handling of active elements such as gates (redirection and/or retention), storing tanks and pumping stations, when needed. Therefore, the modeling and control of UDS basically consists in knowing and representing the (dynamical) behavior of those elements and …