A coupled model for simulating surface water and groundwater interactions in coastal wetlands外文学习材料.pdfVIP

HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES Hydrol. Process. 25, 3533–3546 (2011) Published online 25 April 2011 in Wiley Online Library () DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8079 A coupled model for simulating surface water and groundwater interactions in coastal wetlands Li-Rong Yuan,1,2 Pei Xin,1,3 * Jun Kong,3 Ling Li1,3 and David Lockington1 1 National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 2 School of Engineering, The University of Sun Yat-Sen, GuangZhou, China 3 State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, China Abstract: Coastal wetlands are characterized by strong, dynamic interactions between surface water and groundwater. This paper presents a coupled model that simulates interacting surface water and groundwater flow and solute transport processes in these wetlands. The coupled model is based on two existing (sub) models for surface water and groundwater, respectively: ELCIRC (a three-dimensional (3-D) finite-volume/finite-difference model for simulating shallow water flow and solute transport in rivers, estuaries and coastal seas) and SUTRA (a 3-D finite-element/finite-difference model for simulating variably saturated, variable-density fluid flow and solute transport in porous media). Both submodels, using compatible unstructured meshes, are coupled spatially at the common interface between the surface water and groundwater bodies. The surface water level and solute concentrations computed by the ELCIRC model are used to determine