Document Type

Report

Department/Program

Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Publication Date

1-1995

Series

Special report in applied marine science and ocean engineering ; no. 327.

Abstract

Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) has been developing a general purpose three-dimensional hydrodynamic and sediment transport model, Environmental Fluid Dynamics Computer Code (EFDC; Hamrick 1992). The real-time model simulates density and topographically-induced circulation as well as tidal and wind-driven flows, and spatial and temporal distributions of salinity, temperature and sediment concentration. The model also is capable of handling the wetting and drying of shallow area, hydraulic control structures, vegetation resistance for wetlands and Lagrangian particle tracking. The information of physical transport processes, both advective and diffusive, simulated by the hydrodynamic model can be used to account for the transport of passive substances including non-conservative water quality parameters.

A water quality model with twenty-one state variables has been developed and integrated with EFDC to form a three-dimensional Hydrodynamic-Eutrophication Model (HEM-3D) of the VIMS.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21220/V5ZH9N

Keywords

Water quality -- Mathematical models; Sediment transport -- Mathematical models; Hydrodynamics -- Mathematical models;

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