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ZUO Shu-hua
LI Bei
ZHANG Zheng
ABSTRACT:It is a problem to construct ports in multi-island offshore area with high suspended sediment
concentration and high speed flow, especially sediment problems. Numerical simulation of tidal currents has
become important technique to port engineering. Yangshan islands of China are representative of the offshore
multi-island with high suspended sediment concentration and high speed flow. Based on the characteristic of the
currents and sediments in the Yangshan sea area, a 2D numerical model for the currents induced by waves has
been established. According to characteristic of the research area, unstructured grids are applied to fit the
boundaries of the sea-area. Verifications with the measured data indicate that the present model simulates the
current fields in the research region well. Finally, two layouts were simulated to study the changes of the current
field. Computational results show that the Branch Channel Layout is advantageous to the present situation.
KEYWORDS:Offshore multi-island; Yangshan islands; 2D numerical model; Channel; Layout
1 Introduction
Yangshan Deepwater Harbor lies in the Qiqu archipelago, which is located about 32
kilometers northwest to Luchaogang harbor in Nanhui district, in the north of the
Hangzhou Bay, on the south side of the Yangtze Estuary, and 86 kilometers away the
center of Shanghai (Figure.1). The sea-area is composed of south and north island chains.
The south island chain is from east to west based on the Dayangshan Island while the
north island chain is from northwest to southeast based on the Xiaoyangshan Island. The
water depth of the main channel of Yangshan Harbor is more than 10 meters. Yangshan
Harbor is the nearest deepwater harbor with natural advantages to Shanghai. Now,
Yangshan Deepwater Harbor area consists of these parts: Phase 1 & Phase 2 Project
(Figure.3). Phase 3 Project has been accomplished and put into operation. The West
Harbor District Project is being planned.
Recently, with the construction of the Yangshan Harbor, the references about
Yangshan sea area have been published (Chen et al. [2]; Yan et al. [7]; Yang et al. [8];
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This research was supported financially by Western Traffic Construction Technology
Projects of Ministry of Communications of China (NO.200632800003-04).
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Zuo et al. [10]). But these references were almost about the sediment characteristic and
the topography environments, the numerical simulation research still rare. With the
development of theories of numerical simulations and the improvement of computational
facilities, two-dimensional (2D) numerical models have been widely used to solve
engineering project problems involving the sediment transport by tidal currents and
waves in estuaries, the erosion and sedimentation situations in river channels and
reservoirs, and the sea bed deformation processes around local hydraulic structures (Cao
and Wang. [1]; Ding et al. [3]).
The Yangshan sea area is a typical offshore area with muti-island and muti-channel.
In this paper, taking Yangshan sea-area of the Qiqu archipelago as an example, a 2D
numerical model of tidal currents is established to study the change of the current field.
ζ ( x, y, t ) |t =t0 = ζ 0 ( x, y, t 0 )⎫
⎪ (1)
u ( x , y , t ) |t = t 0 = u 0 ( x , y , t 0 ) ⎬
⎪
v( x, y, t ) |t =t0 = v0 ( x, y, t 0 ) ⎭
In the paper, the initial tidal level is taken as the mean tidal level and the initial tidal
velocity is taken as zero on the computational boundary.
(2)Boundary Conditions
There are four open sea boundaries in the model. The tidal levels control them.
3.3 Computing Area and the Grids
According to characteristic of the research area, unstructured grids are applied to fit
the boundaries of the estuary and the regulation project, because the grids can be used in
irregular geometries and the elements may have arbitrary sizes in regions of interest. The
calculated project area is about 1848km2. The east-west length of the calculated area is
56km while the north-south width is 33km. The number of the nodes is 45869 in the
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model. The sizes of the grids range from 30m to 600m. A fine mesh is used in the project
region.
Using the project boundary and the topography data of 2006, the actions of tidal
currents and wind waves are considered in the model. The movements of tidal currents
are simulated. The results of verification of velocity, direction and current field are given.
3.4 Selection of Parameters
The Manning roughness coefficient n was estimated ranging from 0.016 to 0.035. The
exact value of the coefficient n will be obtained from the verifications.
In the calculation of the wave field, the Wen-theoretical spectrum (Wen et al. [6]) is
selected as the target spectrum. In the model, the wind speed, the characteristic wave
heights and periods are applied using the data from the near weather station of
Guanyinshan.
4 Verification of the Model
The verification of tidal current is the basis of the tidal current and suspended
sediment transport model. It is necessary to simulate the tidal level, flow velocities and
their directions in the Yangshan sea area. Based on the surveys data in April and May
2006(Figure.2), all of the measured data have been verified and the calculated results
coincide with the measured data. The characteristics of the tidal currents pattern and
reversing, inside the Yangshan channel are reflected by the model. The results of tidal
currents model would be combined to the simulations of sediment transportation and
bed-form reworking. Owing to the limited space, only part of the results are shown below,
including the calibration and results of five water level points and seven flow points (see
Figure.3 and Figure.4).
Figure.2 Measuring spots of April and May 2006 in the Yangshan area
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Figure.3 Verification of surface elevation process
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in the channels of the south island chain.
Figure 5 and 6 are the isomers figure of averaged current velocity after the
completion of the project. Figure 5 shows that the averaged current velocity of the west
area decreases after the Big Channel Layout and the ratio of after and before project is
0.8-1.0. But in the Figure 6 after the Branch Channel Layout the averaged current
velocity increases and the ratio is 1.0-1.05.
According to the results (see Tab.1 and Tab.2 in Appendix), it can be seen that the
changes of the mean velocities are different in case1 and case2.
In case 1, besides the west water area (W1-W3, and K4), the averaged velocity is
larger than that before the completion of the project. The increasing amplitudes of the
averaged velocity range from 3% to10%, while the decreasing amplitudes of the averaged
velocity range from 0.0% to13.0% in the west water area. In case 2, generally, the
averaged velocity increases in the Yangshan channel and the west area. In the Yangshan
channel, the increasing amplitudes of the averaged velocity ranging from 0.0% to 6.0%,
which are smaller than that in case 1. The averaged velocity decreases in the channel of
the south island chain, in which the amplitudes range from 1.0% to 3.0%. In both case 1
and case 2, computational results show that changes of the flow direction are less than 10
degree, which indicates that the project has little influence on the flow regimes and the
navigational conditions.
It can be concluded that the amplitudes of the averaged velocity in case 1 are much
greater than those in case 2 relatively. Moreover the decreasing averaged velocity in the
west sea area is disadvantageous to the west harbor district plan, which would cause the
sediment siltation in the west sea area. In the west sea area, it should be noted that the
averaged velocity in the ebb tide is always larger than that in the flood tide no matter
which point is concerned, which is very important to decrease the sediment siltation. The
Kezhushan channel has drainage diffluent action at the period of ebb tide. If the channel
is retained, it is advantageous to depth maintaining of the harbor district.
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Figure.6 Isomers of averaged current velocity after the Branch Channel Layout (after project/before project)
6 Conclusions
The Yangshan sea area is a mesotidal and strong current sea-area with regular
semidiurnal tides. The Yangshan sea area has high suspended sediment concentration
with 1.5kg/m3. The topography environments of channels are related to the flow velocity.
Based on the characteristic of the currents and sediments in the research area, a 2D
numerical model for the current field by waves is established in the paper. The
unstructured grids are applied to fit the boundaries of the Yangshan sea area and the
regulation project, thus the calculation accuracy is improved. Verifications with the
observed data indicate that the simulated results can reflect the current fields in the region.
For the case1 and the case 2, computational results show that currents velocity changes in
case 2 are smaller than those in case 1. Moreover, retaining the Kezhushan channel is
advantageous to depth maintaining of the harbor district.
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Appendix Ⅰ
2D tidal Current Model by Wave
Continuity Equation:
∂ z ∂ ( h u) ∂ ( h v ) (A.1)
+ + =0
∂t ∂x ∂y
Momentum Equation:
∂u ∂u ∂u ∂ z τ sx τ bx (A.2)
+u +v = −g + + + f v + Tx + λ Δ u
∂t ∂x ∂y ∂ x hρ hρ
∂v ∂v ∂v ∂ z τ sy τby (A.3)
+u +v = −g + + − f u + Ty + λ Δ v
∂t ∂x ∂y ∂ y hρ hρ
Where, u and v are the components of the depth-averaged current velocity U in the
direction of x and y respectively; h(=z+z0 )is the total water depth; z is the surface
elevation; z0 is the depth from the undisturbed sea level to the sea floor; f is the parameter
of Coriolis force; g is the acceleration of gravity; ρ is the water density.
τ s x and τ s y represent the components of the surface wind shear stress τ s in the
direction of x and y respectively, which can be expressed as:
⎪⎧τ s x = ρ a Cw W − U ( w x − u) (A.4)
⎨
(
⎪⎩τ s y = ρ a Cw W − U w y − v )
( w x − u) 2 + ( w y − v ) (A.5)
2
W −U =
Where, γ∗ represents the bottom friction and γ ∗ =120d50, in which d50 is the median
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diameter; ab denotes the water particle swing near bed bottom.
∂x ∂y
Tx and Ty are expressed by the following formulas:
⎧ 1 ⎛ ∂ Sx x ∂ Sx y ⎞
⎪Tx = − ⎜ + ⎟ (A.8)
⎪ ρh⎝ ∂ x ∂y ⎠
⎨
⎪T = − 1 ⎛ ∂ S y x + ∂ S y y ⎞
⎪ y ⎜ ⎟
⎩ ρh ⎝ ∂ x ∂y ⎠
Where, E represents the average wave energy during a cycle, and E=ρgh2/8.
To non-regulation wave, S i , j is expressed as below:
⎛ ∞ 2π 1 ∞ 2π n ⎞
⎜ ∫0 ∫0 [n (cos α + 1) − ]E( f ,α)dα df ∫0 ∫0 sin 2αE( f ,α)dα df ⎟ (A.10)
2
⎜ 2 2 ⎟
Si j =
⎜⎜ ∞ 2π n sin 2αE( f ,α )dα df ∞ 2π 1 ⎟⎟
⎝ ∫0 ∫0 2 ∫0 ∫0 [n (sin 2
α + 1) − ]E ( f , α )dα df
2 ⎠
Where, α represents the angle between x-axis and wave direction; f is the wave
frequency; E ( f , α ) is the wave energy.
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Appendix Ⅱ
The changes of the mean velocities
Table1. Changes of mean flow velocity of spring tide to Case1 (Unit: m/s)
K1 0.63 / / 0.83 / /
K2 0.36 / / 0.81 / /
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Table2. Changes of mean flow velocity of spring tide to Case2 (Unit: m/s)
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