Application of EFDC to Density Stratified Flow

Abstract:

Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code (EFDC) was developed by Hamrick at Virginia Institute of Marine Science for estuarine and coastal applications. EFDC is a general-purpose modeling package for simulating three-dimensional flow, transport, and biogeochemical processes in surface water systems such as rivers, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries, wetlands and coastal regions. Use the 3-D numerical model EFDC simulated the density stratified flow in a slut. Compared the simulation and experimental data, the results showed that EFDC could accurately simulated the density stratified flow.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 256-259)
• Pages: 2486-2489
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.256-259.2486
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Bing Zhang, Jing Lv, Peng Huo, Shao Xiong Zhang
• Keywords: Density Stratification, EFDC, Stratified Flow, Thermal Stratification

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