Lagrangian structure of flows in the Chesapeake Bay: Challenges and perspectives on the analysis of estuarine flows

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 149-168

  Branicki, M ^a,b   Malek Madani, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAY; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW MODELING; FLOW STRUCTURE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MODEL VALIDATION; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FLUID MECHANICS; SHALLOW WATER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77952985903     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-17-149-2010     Document Type: Review

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