UMD Theses and Dissertations

Permanent URI for this collectionhttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/3

New submissions to the thesis/dissertation collections are added automatically as they are received from the Graduate School. Currently, the Graduate School deposits all theses and dissertations from a given semester after the official graduation date. This means that there may be up to a 4 month delay in the appearance of a given thesis/dissertation in DRUM.

More information is available at Theses and Dissertations at University of Maryland Libraries.

Browse

Filters

20041

Settings

Author: search.filters.author.Jin, Zhenghua

Search Results

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    MODELING HYDRODYNAMICS AND SEDIMENT TRANSPORT IN BALTIMORE HARBOR: TIME-VARYING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS
    (2004-12-01) Jin, Zhenghua; Boicourt, William; Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Hydrodynamics and sediment transport under time-varying boundary conditions at Baltimore Harbor mouth are simulated using a three-dimensional model. The model predictions are compared to those produced by constant monthly-averaged salinity and sediment boundary conditions and observational data at sampling sites. For monthly average values, both model predictions are compared reasonably with observations. For short-term predictions, the model results under time-varying boundary conditions have more variability than those under constant boundary conditions, as expected. However, time-varying boundary conditions do not improve the short-term predictions significantly and much of the variability that appears in the observational data is not captured. This behavior is partially because the time-varying salinity and sediment boundary conditions are derived from CH3D model output instead of real data.