New River Inlet DRI: Observations and Modeling of Flow and Material Exchange

Abstract

The main objectives of our FY12 effort were to: 1) measure the intra-tidal three dimensional flow velocity distribution; 2) measure the concurrent suspended sediment concentration (the accompanying sediment transports will be obtained by multiplying the concentration with the simultaneously measured velocity); 3) extract the tidal flow circulation with Delft 3D to retrieve the residual flow circulation associated with the forcing by waves, wind and density differences; 4) verify Delft3D in predicting the complex velocity field and concurrent sediment transports under a range of environmental conditions (i.e. waves, wind and potentially stratification).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2012
Accession Number
ADA572941

Entities

People

  • Ad Reniers
  • Jamie MacMahan

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Bodies Of Water
  • Chemistry
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Frequency
  • Measurement
  • Observation
  • Optical Properties
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Sedimentation
  • Standing Waves
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Suspended Sediments
  • Three Dimensional
  • Underwater Acoustics
  • Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
  • Wave Propagation

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography