Tidal simulations for the Loxahatchee River estuary (Southeastern Florida): On the influence of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway versus the surrounding tidal flats

Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 259-268

  Bacopoulos, Peter ^a   Hagen, Scott C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal environment; Finite element method; Florida; Tidal currents

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL BOUNDARY CONDITION; AMPLITUDE ERRORS; COASTAL ENVIRONMENT; COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; COMPUTATIONAL MESH; FINITE ELEMENT MESHES; FLORIDA; HISTORICAL DATA; MODEL OUTPUTS; NET CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; REGION OF INTEREST; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; TIDAL CURRENTS; TIDAL FLAT; TIDAL FLOW; WATER SURFACE ELEVATIONS;

ESTUARIES; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEAN CURRENTS; RIVERS; TIDES; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WATER LEVELS; WETLANDS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; COASTAL ZONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW MODELING; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TIDAL CURRENT; TIDAL FLAT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; WATER LEVEL;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; LOXAHATCHEE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 76249125421     PISSN: 0733950X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WW.1943-5460.0000005     Document Type: Article

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