TITLE:
3D Water Environment Simulation for North Jiangsu Offshore Sea Based on EFDC
AUTHORS:
Feng LUO, Ruijie LI
KEYWORDS:
EFDC, Water Quality, Radial Sand Ridges, Numerical Simulation
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Water Resource and Protection,
Vol.1 No.1,
May
14,
2009
ABSTRACT: The underwater topography in the offshore sea area of north Jiangsu is complicated, including the middle radial sand ridges and northern Haizhou bay underwater shoal. Therefore, it forms special marine dynamic conditions and typical shoal wetland ecosystem. Previous researches of these sea areas were mainly focused on the forms of morphogenesis and the characteristic of conformation of sand ridges. Few studies have done on three dimensional hydrodynamic and water quality simulation. This paper introduced EFDC (Environ-mental Fluid Dynamics Code) to study the tidal current fields, dilution and diffusion of the sewage outlet near Yangkou Port. Comparison between computation results and the observed data indicates that this model could reasonably simulate hydrodynamic fields. Based on the computed tidal current field, the distributions of COD concentration were simulated. The range of contamination diffusion derived from sewage outlet was very limited, and the influence range of sewage came to the maximum when ebb slacks in neap tide period.