**Meet the editors**

Professor Harry Edmar Schulz is a professor in the School of Engineering of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is a Civil Engineer (1982) specialist in the Teaching of Transport Phenomena (1985) MSc., and a doctor in Hydraulics and Sanitary Engg. (1985 and 1990). He is also a professor in Transport Phenomena (1997), a full professor in Fluid Mechanics and Trans-

port Phenomena (2002). Professor Schulz served as a visiting researcher in the IfH, Universität Karlsruhe (1992-1993, 1998-1999) and in the SAFL, University of Minnesota (2007-2008). He is an advisor to students working towards their titles as Dr. and MSc. in Civil Engg. (Hydraulics and Sanitation) and in Mechanical Engg. (Fluid Mechanics). Professor Schulz's interests are in fluid mechanics, turbulence, and related transport phenomena: applied hydraulics, environmental education related to water resources, and the interaction between philosophical and scientific points of view for the improving of the teaching in engineering and exact sciences.

Dr. André Luiz Andrade Simões is a Research Fellow in the Department of Hydraulics and Sanitary Engineering, School of Engineering at São Carlos, University of São Paulo. He is a Civil Engineer (2006), MSc. in Hydraulics and Sanitary Engg. (2008), and has concluded activities for the title of Dr. in Hydraulics and Sanitary engineering (2011). He is interested in fluid mechanics, turbu-

lence, hydraulics, transport phenomena and other related areas.

Msc. Raquel Jahara Lobosco is a Professor MSc. (substitute) in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Federal University of São Carlos. She is a Mechanical Engineer (2004), MSc. in Chemical Engineering (2009), and her activities for the title of Dr. in Hydraulics and Sanitary Engineering are to be concluded in 2012. She has a strong background in software development, airplane

turbine repair, mixing, cooling processes, hydraulic structures, and professional engineering experiences in Portugal (cooling equipment, 2001) and Germany (CAE software development, 2006). Her interests are in fluid mechanics, transport phenomena, hydraulics and programming tools.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **A Hydroinformatic Tool for** 

António A.L.S. Duarte

and Alex V. Krusche

Shangming Li

Steve Brenner

**Part 1 Tidal and Wave Dynamics: Rivers, Lakes and Reservoirs 1** 

Luciana de Souza Cardoso, Carlos Ruberto Fragoso Jr., Rafael Siqueira Souza and David da Motta Marques

**Quality Modelling: Coatzacoalcos River, Mexico 49** 

**Water Quality in Rivers in the Amazon Basin 67**  Alan Cavalcanti da Cunha, Daímio Chaves Brito, Antonio C. Brasil Junior, Luis Aramis dos Reis Pinheiro, Helenilza Ferreira Albuquerque Cunha, Eldo Santos

**Subjected to Ground Excitation Based on SBFEM 89** 

**Temporal Heterogeneity in Subtropical Shallow Lakes 27** 

Franklin Torres-Bejarano, Hermilo Ramirez and Clemente Rodríguez

**Sustainable Estuarine Management 3** 

Chapter 2 **Hydrodynamic Control of Plankton Spatial and** 

Chapter 3 **A Study Case of Hydrodynamics and Water** 

Chapter 4 **Challenges and Solutions for Hydrodynamic and** 

Chapter 5 **Hydrodynamic Pressure Evaluation of Reservoir** 

Chapter 6 **Numerical Modeling of the Ocean Circulation:** 

**– The Mediterranean Example 111** 

**Part 2 Tidal and Wave Dynamics: Seas and Oceans 109** 

**From Process Studies to Operational Forecasting** 
