Open AccessA Case Study on Curtailed Tidal Hydrodynamic Modeling along UAE Coast
Author(s) -
R. Balaji
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the international journal of ocean and climate systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1759-314X
pISSN - 1759-3131
DOI - 10.1260/1759-3131.3.1.45
Subject(s) - current (fluid) , abu dhabi , tidal current , geology , channel (broadcasting) , tidal model , scale (ratio) , computer simulation , marine engineering , scale model , numerical models , boundary (topology) , numerical modeling , meteorology , computer science , engineering , simulation , geography , oceanography , mathematics , geophysics , telecommunications , aerospace engineering , cartography , mathematical analysis , archaeology , metropolitan area
A curtailed numerical model has been developed to assess the tidal hydrodynamics of entrance of a navigational channel in Abu Dhabi coast, United Arab Emirates. The curtailed model is developed using a finite element based numerical scheme, RMA2 (Donnell et al., 2006). The boundary conditions for the model were extracted from a large scale numerical model covering entire Abu Dhabi coast, developed using TELEMAC (Hervouet, 2000) modeling software. The hydrodynamic results of the curtailed model are validated with that of large scale model. The comparisons of water levels and current velocities obtained from the two models are found to be in agreement, demonstrating the efficiency and accuracy of the curtailed numerical model. The features of the tidal current pattern in the vicinity of the entrance of the navigational channel are also discussed. The details of the numerical scheme, model setup and methodology are presented and discussed in this paper
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