Transport of Placed Dredged Material in Surf and Nearshore Zone
Publication: Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
Volume 147, Issue 3
Abstract
Driven by waves, water surface elevation, and wind conditions, a coupled wave, hydrodynamic, and sediment transport modeling system was developed to investigate the transport of placed dredged material in the surf and nearshore zones of southern Lake Michigan. With the measured bathymetric data and the implementation of a cross-shore transport routine, the modeling study focused on nearshore sediment migration, bed volume change, and subaqueous profile change due to wave action. The field datasets validated the model's capability in properly reproducing longshore and cross-shore current and wave processes that govern nearshore sediment transport. The analysis on survey data and simulation results indicates that time-averaged longshore current dominates the redistribution of sediment. Although the cross-shore transport is an order of magnitude smaller than the longshore transport, including the surf zone cross-shore process in the model contributes to net bed and subaqueous profile changes, and greatly improves the model performance.
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Acknowledgments
The author wishes to thank for the support by the Coastal Inlets Research Program (CIRP) of the US Army Corps of Engineers. The Regional Sediment Management (RSM) program and the Chicago District of the US Army Corps of Engineers initiated the original study and provided the survey data. The critical comments and suggestions by two anonymous reviewers helped to improve the quality of the manuscript and are greatly appreciated. Permission was granted by the Chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers to publish this information.
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Volume 147 • Issue 3 • May 2021
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Received: May 27, 2020
Accepted: Oct 9, 2020
Published online: Jan 28, 2021
Published in print: May 1, 2021
Discussion open until: Jun 28, 2021
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