Three-Dimensional Shallow Water Adaptive Hydraulics (ADH-SW3) Validation: Galveston Bay Hydrodynamics and Salinity Transport

Abstract

The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) has developed the multi-module Adaptive Hydraulics (ADH) hydrodynamic, sediment, water quality and transport model. As a natural progression of this development process, verification of ADH was performed to known solutions for the basic physics contained in the numerical model. This report documents a validation of the model performed by applying the three-dimensional shallow water module (ADH-SW3) to Galveston Bay and comparing results to field observations. The validation exercise shows good agreement with the field for water surface elevations, velocities, and salinity.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA615122

Entities

People

  • Gaurav Savant
  • R. C. Berger

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Elevation
  • Engineers
  • Hydraulics
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Observation
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Salinity
  • Shallow Water
  • Standing Waves
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Three Dimensional
  • Transport Ships
  • Two Dimensional
  • Validation
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)