Hydrodynamic and sediment transport modeling of New River Inlet (NC) under the interaction of tides and waves

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 4028-4047

  Chen, Jia Lin ^a   Hsu, Tian Jian ^a   Shi, Fengyan ^a   Raubenheimer, Britt ^b   Elgar, Steve ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

morphological evolution; New River; sediment transport; tidal inlet; wave current interaction

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; DELTA; FLOW PATTERN; FLOW VELOCITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; NAVIGATION CHANNEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESIDUAL FLOW; RIP CURRENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURF ZONE; TIDAL CURRENT; VORTICITY; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION;

NEW RIVER [NORTH CAROLINA]; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85027921822     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC010425     Document Type: Article

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