Effects of convective-diffusive vertical mixing on the conception of rectangular settling basins

Research areas:

• Planète Terre
• Systèmes marins en transition

Year:

2018

Authors:

• Martin Sanchez-Angulo

Journal:

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volume:

32

Number:

5

Pages:

1457-1463

Month:

May

ISSN:

1436-3259

BibTex:

@article{Sanchez2018, author = "Martin Sanchez-Angulo", abstract = "Collection efficiency $\eta$ of rectangular settling basins is studied in this note for two cases: (i) with no mixing and (ii) with perfect vertical mixing. At first, well known reference solutions corresponding to suspended solids with constant settling velocity are presented. The effects on deposition of suspended solids with varying settling velocities are then studied. Finally, original exact solutions for $\eta$ are obtained for gamma distributed settling velocities. The reference solutions are perfectly compatible with these more general solutions.", day = "01", doi = "10.1007/s00477-017-1462-4", issn = "1436-3259", journal = "Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment", month = "May", number = "5", pages = "1457--1463", title = "{E}ffects of convective-diffusive vertical mixing on the conception of rectangular settling basins", url = "doi.org/10.1007/s00477-017-1462-4", volume = "32", year = "2018", }

Abstract:

Collection efficiency $\eta$ of rectangular settling basins is studied in this note for two cases: (i) with no mixing and (ii) with perfect vertical mixing. At first, well known reference solutions corresponding to suspended solids with constant settling velocity are presented. The effects on deposition of suspended solids with varying settling velocities are then studied. Finally, original exact solutions for $\eta$ are obtained for gamma distributed settling velocities. The reference solutions are perfectly compatible with these more general solutions.