The
impact of wave-current interaction to the water level, sediment
transport and water quality dynamics
Meng
Xia
UMD Eastern Shore
11 am September 25 in Room 2552
Abstract:
It is widely known that nearshore and coastal water is the important
region in Great Lakes and ocean. A high-resolution unstructured grid
based wave-current model is required for nearshore and coastal ocean
modeling and local phenomenas (e.g., wave) also need be included. Using
a Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model (FVCOM) and its wave model or
FVCOM-SWAVE, the nearshore and coastal ocean dynamics at Lake Erie,
Lake Michigan, Chesapeake Bay and Maryland Coastal Bays have been
investigated. The structured and unstructured grid based wave models
have been compared and unstructured model showed some advantages, and
the low resolution and high resolution horizontal grid model were given
comparison for both wave and circulation models. Finally how this
wave-current interaction influence the water level, sediment transport
and water quality were also given discussion form the above simulation.