《Lagrangian methods for water transport processes in a long-narrow bay- Xiangshan Bay, China》.pdf

558 Availableonlineatwww．sciencedlrect．corn ScienceDirect JournalofHydrodynamics www．sciencedirect．corn／ 2014，26(4)：558—567 scicnce ournal／l0O16058 DOI：10．1016／S1001—6058f14)60063—9 Lagrangian methodsfor water transportprocesses in a long—narrow bay- ． Xian~shanBay．China LIANGShu—xiu(梁书秀)，HANSong-lin(韩松林)，SUNZhao．chen(孙 晨) StateKeyLaboratory ofCoastalandOffshoreEngineering，DalianUniversity ofTechnology，Dalian 116024， China，E—mail：sxliang@dlut．edu．cn HUZhan—ming(胡展铭) NationalMarineEnvironmentalMonitoringCenter，Dalian116023，China (ReceivedJuly10，2013，RevisedDecember25，2013) Abstract：Abetterunderstandingofwatertransportprocessesishighlydesirablefortheexploitationoftheoceanresourcesandthe protectionoftheoceanecologicalsystem．Inthispaper，theLagrangianmethodsareusedtostudythewatertransportprocessesin XiangshanBayinChina，atypicalsemi—closedandnarrow．shapedbaywithcomplexcoastlineandtopographv．A hi ．resolution 3一D hydrodynamicmode1isdevelopedandverified．andtheresultsfrom themodelagreewellwiththefielddata．Basedonthe hydrodynamicmodeltheLagrangianresidualcurrentiscomputedbyusingtheparticletrackingmethod．A conceptbasedonthe dynamicalsystemstheory．theLagrangiancoherentstructures(LeSs)．isintroducedtouncovertheunderlyingsturctureswhichactas thetransportbarriersintheflow．Thefinite—timeLyapunovexponent(FTLE)fieldsarecomputedfrom thehydrodynamicmode1 resultstoextracttheLCSs．TheresultsindicatethattheLCSsactastheinternalsturcturesoftheLagrangianresidualcurrentandthe Lagrangianresidual