Linking local salt mixing and exchange flow in tidal estuaries

Lloyd Reese

doi:10.18453/rosdok_id00005651

Lloyd Reese

Linking local salt mixing and exchange flow in tidal estuaries

Universität Rostock, März 2025

https://doi.org/10.18453/rosdok_id00005651

Abstract: Estuaries are water bodies with a marine salt water inflow that mixes with terrestrial fresh water to form a brackish outflow. The role of mixing for this circulation was not yet sufficiently studied for realistic cases, where idealised studies might not hold. Here, the full chain of relations from instantaneous, local processes to the tidally averaged, estuary-wide circulation was studied using numerical simulations of a realistic tidal estuary, revealing a complex pattern of local mixing processes which, however, resulted in a subtidal estuary-wide circulation close to the idealised theory.

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Titel:

Linking local salt mixing and exchange flow in tidal estuaries

Beteiligte Personen:

Lloyd Reese[VerfasserIn]
	0009-0007-3481-7165
	1405101938
Hans Burchard[AkademischeR BetreuerIn]
	0000-0001-8288-3932
	136125840
	Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde
Julie Pietrzak[AkademischeR BetreuerIn]
	Delft University of Technology

Beteiligte Körperschaften:

Universität Rostock[Grad-verleihende Institution]
	38329-6
Universität Rostock. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät[Grad-verleihende Institution]
	2147083-2

Zusammenfassung:

Estuaries are water bodies with a marine salt water inflow that mixes with terrestrial fresh water to form a brackish outflow. The role of mixing for this circulation was not yet sufficiently studied for realistic cases, where idealised studies might not hold. Here, the full chain of relations from instantaneous, local processes to the tidally averaged, estuary-wide circulation was studied using numerical simulations of a realistic tidal estuary, revealing a complex pattern of local mixing processes which, however, resulted in a subtidal estuary-wide circulation close to the idealised theory. [Englisch]

Dokumenttyp:

Dissertation

Einrichtung:

Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät

Sprache:

Englisch

Sachgruppe der DNB:

530 Physik

Umfang:

1 Online-Ressource (xx, 161 Seiten)

Veröffentlichung /
Entstehung:

Rostock: Universität Rostock