Assessment and optimization of environmental systems using data analysis and simulation.

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Gerber for the encouragement, insightful comments, invaluable feedback, and friendly support that each of them offered to me during the completion of this research study. I would like to acknowledge Mr. Alex Novak, Ms. Zonetta English, Mr. Dan French and Ms. Heather Dodds from the Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District for their absolute and generous supports and encouragements. Also, I am hugely appreciative to all the Louisville MSD's staff at the Floyds Fork Water Quality Treatment Center for all their kind supports to provide me necessary lab reports. Special mention goes to the DHI group for donation of their software (WEST) and providing me with their platform to perform my simulation and optimization studies. To my friend and colleague, Dr. Sadra Javadi, I appreciate you for your friendship and support. v Finally, and most importantly, all my thanks go to my mother and my brother, Mohammad, for their unconditional support, love, and encouragement. You are the most important people in my world and I will always be indebted. This is my absolute honor to dedicate my dissertation to my mum.