| Description |
xiv, 194 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Importance of estuaries to mankind -- Classification of estuaries -- Estuary numbers -- Alluvial estuaries and their characteristics -- What will follow -- Hydraulic equations -- The shape of alluvial estuaries -- Relating tide to shape -- Tidal movement and amplification -- Tidal wave propagation -- Effect of river discharge and other higher order effects on tidal damping -- The influence of climate change and human interference on estuaries -- Types of mixing, their relative importance, and interaction -- Gravitational circulation -- Mixing by the tide -- Residual circulation through flood and ebb channels -- The decomposition method and why it is not very useful -- Longitudinal effective dispersion -- Van den Burgh's equation -- General equation for longitudinal dispersion -- Types of salt intrusion and shapes of salt intrusion curves -- Salt balance equations -- Influence of rainfall and evaporation -- Time scales and conditions for steady state -- Predictive model for steady state -- Unsteady state model -- Hypersaline estuaries -- Concluding remarks |
| Summary |
The book describes an integrated theory that links estuary shape to tidal hydraulics, tidal mixing and salt intrusion. The shape of an alluvial estuary is characterised by exponentially varying width and the absence of bottom slope. This topography is closely related to tidal parameters, hydraulic parameters and parameters that describe 1-dimensional mixing and salt intrusion. Starting from the fundamental equations for conservation of mass and momentum, analytical equations are derived that relate the topography to tidal parameters (tidal excursion, phase lag, tidal damping, tidal amplification), wave celerity, lateral and vertical mixing and salt intrusion. The book presents a review of the state of the art, a comprehensive theoretical background and ample case illustrations from all over the world. It provides tools with which human interference in estuary dynamics can be described and predicted, resulting from, for instance: upstream fresh water abstraction, dredging, climate change or sea-level rise. In describing the interactions between tide, topography, water quality and river discharge, it provides useful information for hydraulic engineers, morphologists, ecologists and people concerned with water quality in alluvial estuaries. Although the book can be used as a text book, it is mainly a monograph aimed at graduate students and researchers. * Provides new integrated theory for tidal hydraulics, tidal mixing and salt intrusion in alluvial estuaries * Presents a consistent set of analytical equations to compute tidal movement, tidal mixing and salt intrusion, derived from the fundamental laws of conservation of mass and momentum * Serves as a practical guide with many illustrations of applications in real estuaries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-190) and index |
| Notes |
Also available via the World Wide Web |
| Subject |
Estuaries -- Mathematical models.
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Hydrodynamics -- Mathematical models.
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Saltwater encroachment -- Mathematical models.
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Tides -- Mathematical models.
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| ISBN |
0444521089 |
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