Author(s)

A.Y. Kuo & K. Park

Abstract

A PC-based tidal prism water quality model for small coastal basins A.Y. Kuo, K. Park School of Marine Science/Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The College of William and Mary, Gloucester Z75V1 ABSTRACT A tidal prism water quality model has been developed for small coastal basins. The model simulates the physical transport using the concept of tidal flushing. The model includes up to the secondary branches (those branch from the primary branches) by treating them as storage areas, which exchange the water masses with the adjoining primary branches (those branch from the main channel) as the tide rises and falls. The model has twenty-four state variables in the water column and twenty-seven state variables in the sediment. An innovative solution scheme, which involves decoupling of the kinetic processes from the physical transport and analytical solutions of the linearized kinetic equations, results in a simple, efficient and yet accurate com

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