Tidal river dynamics: Implications for deltas

AJF Hoitink, DA Jay - Reviews of Geophysics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Tidal rivers are a vital and little studied nexus between physical oceanography and
hydrology. It is only in the last few decades that substantial research efforts have been …

Efficient scheme for the shallow water equations on unstructured grids with application to the Continental Shelf

HWJ Kernkamp, A Van Dam, GS Stelling… - Ocean Dynamics, 2011 - Springer
In this paper, a shallow-water flow solver is presented, based on the finite-volume method
on unstructured grids The method is suitable for flows that occur in rivers, channels, sewer …

Changing extreme sea levels along European coasts

R Weisse, D Bellafiore, M Menéndez, F Méndez… - Coastal …, 2014 - Elsevier
Extreme sea levels at European coasts and their changes over the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries are considered, including a method to analyze extreme sea levels and to assess …

Review of wetting and drying algorithms for numerical tidal flow models

SC Medeiros, SC Hagen - International journal for numerical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
SUMMARY A review of wetting and drying (WD) algorithms used by contemporary numerical
models based on the shallow water equations is presented. The numerical models reviewed …

A fully implicit wetting–drying method for DG-FEM shallow water models, with an application to the Scheldt Estuary

T Kärnä, B De Brye, O Gourgue, J Lambrechts… - Computer Methods in …, 2011 - Elsevier
Resolving the shoreline undulation due to tidal excursion is a crucial part of modelling water
flow in estuaries and coastal areas. Nevertheless, maintaining positive water column depth …

Tidal impact on the division of river discharge over distributary channels in the Mahakam Delta

MG Sassi, AJF Hoitink, B De Brye, B Vermeulen… - Ocean Dynamics, 2011 - Springer
Bifurcations in tidally influenced deltas distribute river discharge over downstream channels,
asserting a strong control over terrestrial runoff to the coastal ocean. Whereas the …

Numerical modelling and graph theory tools to study ecological connectivity in the Great Barrier Reef

CJ Thomas, J Lambrechts, E Wolanski, VA Traag… - Ecological …, 2014 - Elsevier
The process of coral larval dispersal is important for coral reef ecosystems, but remains
poorly understood and hard to gauge. Better knowledge of inter-reef connectivity patterns …

Residence time, exposure time and connectivity in the Scheldt Estuary

A de Brauwere, B De Brye, S Blaise… - Journal of Marine …, 2011 - Elsevier
Residence times and exposure times are computed for 13 boxes in the Scheldt Estuary,
using the high-resolution tracer-transport model SLIM. The concepts are clearly defined and …

Modelling faecal contamination in the Scheldt drainage network

NK Ouattara, A de Brauwere, G Billen… - Journal of marine …, 2013 - Elsevier
This study developed a model simulating the seasonal and spatial variations of
microbiological water quality (expressed in terms of Escherichia coli concentrations) in …

An efficient parallel implementation of explicit multirate Runge–Kutta schemes for discontinuous Galerkin computations

B Seny, J Lambrechts, T Toulorge, V Legat… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Although explicit time integration schemes require small computational efforts per time step,
their efficiency is severely restricted by their stability limits. Indeed, the multi-scale nature of …