Modeling equilibrium bed profiles of short tidal embayments: On the effect of the vertical distribution of suspended sediment and the influence of the boundary conditions

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 183-204

  Ter Brake, Miriam C ^a   Schuttelaars, Henk M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Boundary condition; Estuary; Idealized model; Morphodynamic equilibrium; Sediment transport; Tidal basin

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION DIFFUSION EQUATION; CONTINUATION TECHNIQUES; DEVELOPED MODEL; FALL VELOCITIES; FIELD DATA; IDEALIZED MODEL; PARAMETER VALUES; PHASE DIFFERENCE; SEA SURFACE ELEVATION; SEDIMENT FLUX; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT FLUX; TIDAL BASIN; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; WADDEN SEA; WATER DEPTH; WATER MOTION;

ADVECTION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL MECHANICS; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; BOUNDARY CONDITION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORPHODYNAMICS; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIDAL CHANNEL; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WATER DEPTH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

EID: 77954760764     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-009-0232-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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