The Estuarine Circulation.¶
Geyer, W. R., & MacCready, P. (2014). The Estuarine Circulation. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 46, 175-197.
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Primes¶
- Counter-Current Exchange
- Building HVAC: heat-recovery ventilators run incoming and outgoing air in opposition across a thin exchanger to recover sensible and latent heat from exhaust. Oceanography: in stratified estuaries, rivers and saltier ocean water flow in opposite directions, and the geometry sets the mixing efficiency that shapes salinity, nutrient, and sediment profiles.
This sourceDescribes two-layer gravitational (estuarine) circulation in stratified/salt-wedge estuaries — seaward surface freshwater over landward bottom saltwater — whose opposing flow and mixing set salinity and material-transport structure. (Resolves needs-source-882; supports counter-flowing river/ocean water in stratified estuaries governing mixing and salinity/nutrient/sediment profiles.)
- Building HVAC: heat-recovery ventilators run incoming and outgoing air in opposition across a thin exchanger to recover sensible and latent heat from exhaust. Oceanography: in stratified estuaries, rivers and saltier ocean water flow in opposite directions, and the geometry sets the mixing efficiency that shapes salinity, nutrient, and sediment profiles.
Domain-specific¶
- Salt Wedge
- The estuarine stratification regime is set by the competition between river buoyancy forcing and tidal mixing power: read through the internal Froude number of the two-layer flow and a mixing parameter comparing the tidal timescale to the vertical mixing timescale, that competition determines whether stratification is maintained, sits in a transitional regime, or is broken down
This sourceGeyer and MacCready's review of the estuarine circulation, which maps the estuarine parameter space against a mixing parameter based on the ratio of the tidal timescale to the vertical mixing timescale and sorts estuaries into maintained, transitional and broken-down stratification regimes; the review's companion axis is the freshwater Froude number rather than the internal Froude number of the two-layer flow.
- The estuarine stratification regime is set by the competition between river buoyancy forcing and tidal mixing power: read through the internal Froude number of the two-layer flow and a mixing parameter comparing the tidal timescale to the vertical mixing timescale, that competition determines whether stratification is maintained, sits in a transitional regime, or is broken down
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