A Study of the Structure of the Near-Coastal Zone Water Column Using Numerical Simulations

Abstract

Our long-term goal is to understand how flows in near-coastal zone (20m to 100m) respond to a variety of forcing mechanisms including tidal pressure gradients, surface waves, surface heating and cooling, surface wave-bottom current interaction, and tidally generated bottom boundary currents. Because the nature of this response varies throughout the water column and depends strongly on the non-linear coupling of stratification, turbulence and flow structure characterizing the structure of the water column in this environment is a very difficult field measurement task.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2003
Accession Number
ADA618365

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey R. Koseff
  • Joel H. Ferziger
  • Stephen G. Monismith

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Channel Flow
  • Engineering
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Froude Number
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanics
  • Physics
  • Pressure Gradients
  • Simulations
  • Stratification
  • Surface Waves
  • Turbulence
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography