Daniel R. Lynch

Particles in the Coastal Ocean (eBook, ePUB)

Theory and Applications

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The coastal ocean comprises the semi-enclosed seas on the continental shelf, including estuaries and extending to the shelf break. This region is the focus of many serious concerns, including coastal inundation by tides, storm surges or sea level change; fisheries and aquaculture management; water quality; harmful algal blooms; planning of facilities (such as power stations); port development and maintenance; and oil spills. This book addresses modeling and simulation of the transport, evolution and fate of particles (physical and biological) in the coastal ocean. It is the first to summarize the state of the art in this field and direct it toward diverse applications, for example in measuring and monitoring sediment motion, oil spills and larval ecology. This is an invaluable textbook and reference work for advanced students and researchers in oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, marine and civil engineering, computational science and environmental science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316055410
• Artikelnr.: 49268170

Autorenporträt

Daniel R. Lynch is MacLean Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College and Adjunct Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He has published extensively on simulation methods in coastal oceanography. He co-founded the Gordon Research Conference in Coastal Ocean Modeling, was executive director of the Regional Association for Research on the Gulf of Maine, and served on the executive committee of the US GLOBEC Northwest Atlantic Program. He developed the Numerical Methods Laboratory at Dartmouth around the theme of interdisciplinary computational engineering and authored the textbook Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations for Environmental Scientists and Engineers (2005). He is co-editor of Professions and the Common Good (2006), a contributor to the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century (2008), and author of Sustainable Natural Resource Management for Scientists and Engineers (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Background: 1. The coastal ocean; 2. Drifters and their numerical simulation; 3. Probability and statistics
a primer; 4. Dispersion by random walk; 5. BCs, boundary layers, sources; 6. Turbulence closure; Part II. Elements: 7. Meshes: interpolation, navigation, and fields; 8. Particles and fields; Part III. Applications: 9. Noncohesive sediment
dense particles; 10. Oil
chemically active particles; 11. Individual-based models
biotic particles; Part IV. Appendixes.