The Interaction between Buoyancy Forced and Tidally Induced Residual Motion

该奖项将支持一名研究生在长岛湾进行关于潮汐诱导的剩余环流与河流流入产生的密度强迫环流相互作用的建模论文。浮力流与潮流的相互作用是一个重要的河口问题，但尚未引起人们的重视。这两种机制都被假设为在长岛海峡观察到的环流类型，但这项工作将是第一次处理这两个过程之间的相互作用。这项工作将在污染控制方面有重要的应用。

This award will support a graduate student doing his thesis on modeling the interaction of the tidally induced residual circulation with the density forced circulation produced by river inflow, in Long Island Sound. The interaction of buoyancy flows with tidal currents is an important estuarine problem which has not received much attention. Both mechanisms have been postulated for the type of circulation observed in Long Island Sound but this work will be the first to treat the interaction between the two processes. The work will have important applications on pollution control.