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Environmental Fluid Mechanics (EFM) studies the motion of air and water at several different scales, the fate and transport of species carried along by these fluids, and the interactions among those flows and geological, biological, and engineered systems. EFM emerged some decades ago as a response to the need for tools to study problems of flow and transport in rivers, estuaries, lakes, groundwater and the atmosphere; it is a topic of increasing importance for decision makers, engineers, and researchers alike. The second edition of the successful textbook Fluid Mechanics of Environmental Interfaces is still aimed at providing a comprehensive overview of fluid mechanical processes occurring at the different interfaces existing in the realm of EFM, such as the air-water interface, the air-land interface, the water-sediment interface, the surface water-groundwater interface, the water-vegetation interface, and the water-biological systems interface. Across any of these interfaces mass, momentum, and heat are exchanged through different fluid mechanical processes over various spatial and temporal scales. In this second edition, the unique feature of this book, considering all the topics from the point of view of the concept of environmental interface, was maintained while the chapters were updated and five new chapters have been added to significantly enlarge the coverage of the subject area. The book starts with a chapter introducing the concept of EFM and its scope, scales, processes and systems. Then, the book is structured in three parts with fifteen chapters. Part one, which is composed of four chapters, covers the processes occurring at the interfaces between the atmosphere and the surface of the land and the seas, including the transport of dust and the dispersion of passive substances within the atmosphere. Part two deals in five chapters with the fluid mechanics at the air-water interface at small scales and sediment-water interface, including the advective diffusion of air bubbles, the hyporheic exchange and the tidal bores. Finally, part three discusses in six chapters the processes at the interfaces between fluids and biotic systems, such as transport processes in the soil-vegetation-lower atmosphere system, turbulence and wind above and within the forest canopy, flow and mass transport in vegetated open channels, transport processes to and from benthic plants and animals and coupling between interacting environmental interfaces. Each chapter has an educational part, which is structured in four sections: a synopsis of the chapter, a list of keywords that the reader should have encountered in the chapter, a list of questions and a list of unsolved problems related to the topics covered by the chapter. The book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in environmental sciences, civil engineering and environmental engineering, (geo)physics, atmospheric science, meteorology, limnology, oceanography, and applied mathematics.

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Carlo Gualtieri is currently Assistant Professor in Environmental Hydraulics at the Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering Department G. Ippolito of the University of Napoli Federico II. He received a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering at the University of Napoli Federico II. Prof. Gualtieri has published 85 peer-reviewed scientific papers: 15 in scientific journals; 40 in conference proceedings, and 26 other refereed publications in subjects related to environmental hydraulics and computational environmental fluid mechanics. He is co-author of 2 textbooks on Hydraulics and author of a textbook on Environmental Hydraulics. He is member of the Editorial Board of Environmental Modelling and Software (Elsevier), where he serves as Manuscript Editor for Environmental Fluid Mechanics area. He is a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the EU project RRP-CMEP, of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and of the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering & Research. Dragutin T. Mihailovic is Professor of Meteorology and Biophysics at the Department of Vegetables and Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He is also Professor of Modelling Physical Processes at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences at the same university and Visiting Professor at the State University of New York at Albany. He teaches various theoretical and numerical meteorology courses to students in Physics and Agriculture.He received his M.Sc. in Dynamics Meteorology at the University of Belgrade and defended his Ph.D. Thesis in Dynamics Meteorology at the University of Belgrade. He is head of the Center for Meteorology and Environmental Modelling (CMEM) which is part of the Association of Centers for Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Studies (ACIMSI) of the University of Novi Sad where he has teaching activities. His main research interests are surface processes and boundary layer meteorology with application to air pollution modeling and agriculture.

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