Coupling of Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Models

by Sandra Bird, USAE Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS, USA,
Ross Hall, USAE Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS, USA,
Mark Dortch, USAE Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS, USA,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Water Forum '86: World Water Issues in Evolution

Abstract:

Long term, multi-dimensional water quality modeling in estuaries and coastal embayments using a directly linked hydrodynamic and water quality model can be prohibitively expensive. In this paper, fine scale, short time step hydrodynamic model output was linked with a coarse grid, longer time step finite segment type water quality model. Dye tracer simulations were used to compare mass transport by the finite segment model relative to mass transport by models directly linked to the hydrodynamic simulation. Refs.

Subject Headings: Water quality | Hydrologic models | Mathematical models | Water resources | Water pollution | Hydrodynamics | Simulation models

Services: Buy this book/Buy this article

 

Return to search