Flushing time of the Yangtze estuary by discharge is one of the importantfactors responsible for the transport of pollutants from various sources located along the Yangtzeestuary: Therefore, an objective of the presen...Flushing time of the Yangtze estuary by discharge is one of the importantfactors responsible for the transport of pollutants from various sources located along the Yangtzeestuary: Therefore, an objective of the present stud-y, which analysis flushing time in the case ofdifferent discharge is very helpful to evaluate the water environmental of the Yangtze estuary.Using a dissolved conservative material as a tracer in the water, a three-dimensionadvection-diffusion water exchange numerical model was used to study the flushing time by dischargeand the discharge dominated region of the Yangtze estuary. The initial tracer concentration is setto 0.0 in the numerical domain of the Yangtze estuary, and the concentration value is set to 1. 0 onthe inflow boundary. The tracer flux normal to the solid boundary is set to 0. 0. The flushing timeand the out limit of discharge dominated region can be calculated in terms of the tracerconcentration. Estuarine, Coastal and Ocean Model (ECOM) is used as the hydro-dynamic model. Theresult shows that the flushing time is approximately in inverse proportion to the discharge at theupper stream. The out limit is farther from the upper inflow boundary as discharge increases. Theout limit at the north branch is different from that of the south branch because the discharge intothe north branch is much less than that into the south branch. The data is qualitative similar tothe observed data, which show the three-dimensional advection-diffusion equation can be used toestimate the flushing time and the discharge dominated region of the Yangtze estuary.展开更多
文摘Flushing time of the Yangtze estuary by discharge is one of the importantfactors responsible for the transport of pollutants from various sources located along the Yangtzeestuary: Therefore, an objective of the present stud-y, which analysis flushing time in the case ofdifferent discharge is very helpful to evaluate the water environmental of the Yangtze estuary.Using a dissolved conservative material as a tracer in the water, a three-dimensionadvection-diffusion water exchange numerical model was used to study the flushing time by dischargeand the discharge dominated region of the Yangtze estuary. The initial tracer concentration is setto 0.0 in the numerical domain of the Yangtze estuary, and the concentration value is set to 1. 0 onthe inflow boundary. The tracer flux normal to the solid boundary is set to 0. 0. The flushing timeand the out limit of discharge dominated region can be calculated in terms of the tracerconcentration. Estuarine, Coastal and Ocean Model (ECOM) is used as the hydro-dynamic model. Theresult shows that the flushing time is approximately in inverse proportion to the discharge at theupper stream. The out limit is farther from the upper inflow boundary as discharge increases. Theout limit at the north branch is different from that of the south branch because the discharge intothe north branch is much less than that into the south branch. The data is qualitative similar tothe observed data, which show the three-dimensional advection-diffusion equation can be used toestimate the flushing time and the discharge dominated region of the Yangtze estuary.
