World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2019
Development of Hydrodynamic and Sediment Transport Model for Green Bay, Lake Michigan
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2019: Hydraulics, Waterways, and Water Distribution Systems Analysis
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In the 1980s the International Joint Commission listed Lower Green Bay and the Fox River as an area of concern because of problems due to contaminated sediment, poor water quality, and lost or altered habitat, and subsequently the USEPA designated Lower Green Bay as a Superfund National Priority site. The authors have studied the circulation, thermal regime, and water quality in Green Bay, using models based on the Princeton ocean model (POM) and the environmental fluid dynamics code (EFDC). Obstacles in those studies included shortage of field measurements and model limitations. Modeling challenges included the creation of boundary conditions for nested models, use of structured grids, modeling stratified flows in shallow areas, and limited model documentation. Currently NOAA GLERL is migrating its models to the finite volume community model (FVCOM) a state-of-the-art modeling platform. The model under development in this study is based on FVCOM to overcome the challenges mentioned above, facilitate research collaboration, and will provide a single and wider platform to investigate surface waves, lake turbulence, 3-D sediment transport, and water quality in Lake Michigan, and Green Bay in particular. The FVCOM model runs in parallel mode, with notable advantages in computational efficiency. Other advantages of the new model are the use of a single unstructured grid for Lake Michigan and Green Bay, with fine density in the bay and a coarser grid in the lake, and the availability of a menu of turbulence closure models that can help in the simulation of stratified flows.
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World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2019: Hydraulics, Waterways, and Water Distribution Systems Analysis
Pages: 68 - 82
Editors: Gregory F. Scott and William Hamilton, Ph.D.
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