A Brief Review of Water Quality Models: AQUASEA | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries | ||
| Article 128, Volume 29, Issue 1, January and February 2025, Pages 2697-2716 PDF (1.89 M) | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejabf.2025.414387 | ||
| Author | ||
| Naglaa El-Naggar1, 2 | ||
| 1Department of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Hafr Al Batin, P.O. Box 1803, Hafr Al Batin, 31991, Saudi Arabia | ||
| 2National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, NIOF, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Water has a vital role in our life and without it there is no life on earth. Water pollution is one of the world challenges and problems that face both developing and developed countries. To understand how an ecosystem is polluted or not, we need concrete and deep knowledge of models of water quality to make fruitful directions and decisions. Water quality modeling is an effective tool for solving water pollution problems, saving labor’s and materials’ cost for many industrial developments that helps policymakers, scholars, and water managers for water environmental management. The advancements in computer science have resulted in models’ development for predicting the quality of water and simulating the fate/transport of environmental contaminants. Up to date, hundreds of computer software model, including ten model types of water quality, with 1D, 2D, or 3D simulation have been developed. This article review describes water quality modeling using AQUASEA program, which is a powerful, effective program, and easy to be used as finite element to solve rivers flow, tidal flow problems in coastal areas, estuaries, lake circulation and problems related to different water quality dispersion and transport of indicators. Various models have been implemented using AQUASEA program in different regions of the world. Although AQUASEA program is used in the most difficult models, this program is not widely used as water quality model in comparison with other programs. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Hydrodynamic; Water quality; Modeling; AQUASEA | ||
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