Numerical simulation of the tidal flow and suspended sediment transport in the qiantang estuary

Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 192-202

  Guo, Yakun ^a   Wu, Xiuguang ^a   Pan, Cunhong ^b   Zhang, Jisheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b ZHEJIANG INSTITUTE OF HYDRAULICS AND ESTUARY   (China)

Author keywords

Numerical simulation; Qiantang estuary; Seabed deformation; Suspended sediment concentration; Tidal current

Indexed keywords

BED DEFORMATION; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; CURRENT VELOCITY; FIELD DATA; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; LARGE DEVIATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS; TIDAL CURRENTS; TIDAL ELEVATIONS; TIDAL FLOW; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES; WATER ELEVATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

ESTUARIES;

DEFORMATION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TIDAL CURRENT;

CHINA; QIANTANG ESTUARY; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 84860893214     PISSN: 0733950X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WW.1943-5460.0000118     Document Type: Article

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