A Breadth Averaged Numerical Model for Suspended Sediment Transport in Hooghly Estuary, East Coast of India

P. Sinha, Pragya Guliani, G. Jena, A. Rao, S. Dube, A. Chatterjee and Tad Murty

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2004, vol. 32, issue 2, 239-255

Abstract: Sedimentation is of vital concern in the conservation, development and utilization ofour soil and water resources. The suspended sediment in estuarine waters is hazardousto navigation in estuaries, which have important ports and harbours. A breadth-averagednumerical model to study circulation and sediment transport is presented in this paper.The model is applied to Hooghly estuary, along the east coast of India. The model is fullynon-linear and uses a semi-explicit finite difference scheme to solve mass, momentum andadvection diffusion equation for suspended sediments in a vertical plane. The erosion anddeposition have been computed by empirically developed source and sink terms in thesuspended sediment equation. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004

Keywords: Turbulent kinetic energy; Hooghly estuary; suspended sediment transport; numerical model; salinity intrusion; circulation; erosion; deposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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