This excellent book engages the reader with a novel two-pronged approach.
The book has two aims: to introduce basic concepts of environmental modeling and to facilitate the application of the concepts using modern numerical tools such as MATLAB and FEMLAB.
It is targeted at all natural scientists dealing with the environment: process and chemical engineers, physicists, chemists, biologists, biochemists, hydrogeologists, geochemists and ecologists.
MATLAB was chosen as the major computer tool for modeling, firstly because it is unique in its capabilities, and secondly because it is available in most academic institutions, in all universities and in the research departments of many companies.
FEMLAB is a natural complement to MATLAB, as it is a special tool for those tasks which cannot be performed with the basic MATLAB software.