Experimental study on pollutant movement in surf zone

Article type: Research Article

Authors: TANG, Jun | SHEN, Yong-ming | ZOU, Zhi-li | QIU, Da-hong | ZHENG, Yong-hong

Affiliations: State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China | Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China

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Abstract: The experiments on pollutant movement in surf zone were conducted on the two gentle beaches (with slope of 1:100 and 1:40, respectively), for diverse wave cases. The movement contours and direction of pollutants, under the action of regular and random waves with diverse wave amplitudes, were provided and studied in this paper. It was shown that, due to complicated hydrodynamics in surf zone, the pollutant movement state is quite complicated and different from that in pure current zone.

Keywords: surf zone, random wave, regular wave, pollutants

Journal: Journal of Environmental Sciences, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 762-764, 2004