Numerical Simulation of Residual Circulation due to Bottom Roughness Variability Under Tidal Flows in A Semi-Enclosed Bay

1 .IntroductionWater pollution has a large influence on water environment and our life ;for example ,it some-times induces oxygen depression,blue tide andredtide in a bay.For water purificationin a semi-en-closed sea ,some new methods to activate the tidal exchange between an inner bay and an outer seaarea by control of a tidal residual current have been proposed (Awayaet al .,1995) . Huthnance(1973) ,Zimmerman (1978 ,1981) , Loder (1980) ,and Robinson (1983) considered cases wherethe fricti…

Numerical Simulation of Residual Circulation due to Bottom Roughness Variability Under Tidal Flows in A Semi-Enclosed Bay

Nowadays there are some chronic serious environmental problems, such as eutrophication, blue tide and so on, in a complicated coastal zone or a semi-enclosed bay, because the water exchanges between an inner bay and an outer sea is weak compared with the supply of contaminant. Under this situation, a method to improve the water quality by 3-dimensional small unsymmetrical structures has been proposed by Komatsu et al. In this paper, several numerical simulations of the tidal current and concentration for various arrangements of bottom roughness in a semi-enclosed model bay are carried out with a depth-averaged 2-D numerical model. The model is solved by the hybrid finite analytic method with non-staggered grid. And the SIMPLES algorithm with Rhie and Chow's momentum interpolation technique is used for the simulation. The effect of Komatsu's method for water purification is examined by numerical simulation. The result of numerical experiment indicates that it is possible to generate a new tidal residual current and to activate a tidal exchange by bottom roughness arrangement only.