Two-Dimensional Numerical Model of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway near New Orleans

An integrated modeling approach for elucidating the effects of different management strategies on Chesapeake Bay oyster metapopulation dynamics

“…ADH is an unstructured finite-element hydrodynamic modeling system that has been thoroughly documented in other studies (Danchuk and Wilson, 2010;Horner et al, 2010;Pettway et al, 2010;Tate et al, 2012;Savant and Berger, 2012;McAlpin et al, 2013;Martin et al, 2012). The focus here is on discussing how we developed an ADH simulation for the Great Wicomico River to provide water level, current, and water quality data to the population dynamics model and the PTM.…”

The Shallow‐Water Component of the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Model Package

“…The most rigorous examination of the model performance involves the comparison with observations collected in the shallow-water monitoring program 2000-2005 (Figures 10 and 11). A desire for increased resolution will likely require a switch to a specialized, shallow-water model based on a different grid conception, e.g., an unstructured mesh of triangular elements (Chen et al, 2006;Martin et al, 2011) to improve fit between the model domain and the environment. The geographic extent of the observations is limited, however (Figure 4), and conclusions regarding model performance are tentative.…”

“…The present structured computational grid of quadrilateral elements is reaching the limits of resolution relative to the convoluted geometry of the nearshore region. A desire for increased resolution will likely require a switch to a specialized, shallow-water model based on a different grid conception, e.g., an unstructured mesh of triangular elements (Chen et al, 2006;Martin et al, 2011) to improve fit between the model domain and the environment. The benefits obtained from increased resolution alone, however, may not be fruitful without concurrent investigation into processes which determine solids dynamics and light attenuation in shallow water.…”

Flood Analysis Using Adaptive Hydraulics (ADH) Model in Akarcay Basin

“…The model has a very wide range of usage, and leads to very innovative applications and satisfactory results. Some of the applications are modeling of floating objects [31], surge overtopping of a levee [32], groundwater [33], the effects of shoreline sensitivity on oil spill trajectory [34], complex river-lake interactions [35], the effects of the surge protection structure on Gulf Intracoastal Waterway [36], habitat restoration and flood control protection [37], navigation lock filling system and mass conservation [38,39], transient simulation [40], hydrologic model at watershed scale [41], dam and levee breach [42].…”