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Measurements of Waves in a Wind-wave Tank Under Steady and Time-varying Wind Forcing
Published on: February 13, 2018
[Experiment and model simulation of suspended solids in Taihu Lake under wind-wave disturbance]
Yong Pang1, Wei Zhuang, Tao Han
1College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China. ypang@hhu.edu.cn
Abstract:
The bottom mud in Taihu Lake was simulated indoors in a wave tank. The rules of starting principle of the bottom mud were analyzed under different kinds of disturbing intensity in this paper. The common wave intensity of Tai Lake could be systematically simulated in the wave tank. The critical sheer stress of bottom mud in Tai Lake is 0.050Pa by the experiment. The calculated result of the flow field and suspended solids from the advanced model of FVCOM conforms to the observation data in Taihu Lake very well, which proves validity of the model. Because the conflict of field observation data in time and space greatly influences the accuracy of model parameters, simulating the suspended solids indoors is very important to the cure of Eutrophication in Taihu Lake.
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