Parametrization of dispersion in the depth-averaged transport equation

DOI10.1016/0307-904X(94)90144-9MaRDI QIDQ1344671zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors C. Knock, S. C. Ryrie

Publication date 23 July 1995

Published in Applied Mathematical Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0307-904X(94)90144-9

zbMATH Keywords

general background dispersion coefficientNavier-Stokes equationsSevern estuaryshallow water equationstidal flowvertical shear

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Incompressible viscous fluids (76D99) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

Review text

The presence of a vertical shear in the flow in an estuary means that the depth averaging of the Navier-Stokes equations gives rise to an extra dispersion-like term acting along the direction of flow. Here a method is developed that more realistically represents the physics involved, by defining two new coefficients: a general background dispersion coefficient and one expressing the dispersion due to the vertical shear. This scheme is applied first to a simple test problem and is then used in a model of the tidal flow within the Severn estuary, using in each case a previously developed finite-element formulation of the shallow water equations.

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