Evaluation of air pollution modelling tools as environmental engineering courseware

The study of phenomena related to the dispersion of pollutants usually takes advantage of the use of mathematical models based on the description of the different processes involved. This educational approach is especially important in air pollution dispersion, when the processes follow a non-linear...

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Vydané v:Water science and technology Ročník 49; číslo 8; s. 57 - 64
Hlavní autori: Souto González, J.A., Bello Bugallo, P.M., Casares Long, J.J.
Médium: Journal Article Konferenčný príspevok..
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: England IWA Publishing 01.01.2004
Predmet:
Air Pollution
Chemical engineering
Computer programs
Disk operating system (DOS)
Dispersion
Ecology - education
Educational Technology
Engineering - education
Environment models
Environmental engineering
Environmental impact
Environmental Monitoring
Evaluation
Graduate studies
Humans
Information Storage and Retrieval - methods
Learning behaviour
Mathematical models
Modelling
Models, Chemical
Pollutants
Pollution dispersion
Problem-Based Learning
Program Evaluation
Programming Languages
Software
Software development tools
Solvers
User-Computer Interface
World Wide Web
ISBN:1843394723, 9781843394723
ISSN:0273-1223, 1996-9732
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Shrnutí:The study of phenomena related to the dispersion of pollutants usually takes advantage of the use of mathematical models based on the description of the different processes involved. This educational approach is especially important in air pollution dispersion, when the processes follow a non-linear behaviour so it is difficult to understand the relationships between inputs and outputs, and in a 3D context where it becomes hard to analyze alphanumeric results. In this work, three different software tools, as computer solvers for typical air pollution dispersion phenomena, are presented. Each software tool developed to be implemented on PCs, follows approaches that represent three generations of programming languages (Fortran77, VisualBasic and Java), applied over three different environments: MS-DOS, MS-Windows and the world wide web. The software tools were tested by students of environmental engineering (undergraduate) and chemical engineering (postgraduate), in order to evaluate the ability of these software tools to improve both theoretical and practical knowledge of the air pollution dispersion problem, and the impact of the different environment in the learning process in terms of content, ease of use and visualization of results.
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ISBN:1843394723
9781843394723
ISSN:0273-1223
1996-9732
DOI:10.2166/wst.2004.0487