Open AccessMODEL/FIELD COMPARISON - COASTAL BUOYANT JET
Author(s) -
Shuen-Wei Scott Tu,
Patrick J. Ryan,
Jeffrey P. Leighton
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
proceedings of conference on coastal engineering/proceedings of ... conference on coastal engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2156-1028
pISSN - 0589-087X
DOI - 10.9753/icce.v20.199
Subject(s) - bathymetry , jet (fluid) , calibration , field (mathematics) , environmental science , marine engineering , scale (ratio) , scale model , geology , waves and shallow water , hydraulic roughness , field experiment , hydrology (agriculture) , surface finish , oceanography , geotechnical engineering , meteorology , mechanics , engineering , physics , aerospace engineering , mathematics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics , mechanical engineering , statistics
Calibration and verification of a 1:75 scale undistorted hydraulic model is described. The model was used to simulate the waste heat distribution in shallow and semi-confined receiving waters. The study was carried out in the laboratory by analyzing the effect of several parameters in comparisons of model and field data. Because of the shallow receiving waters, it was found that the near-field bathymetry, bottom roughness and waves were the critical parameters in achieving a reasonable simulation.