Print Email Facebook Twitter Near-Bottom Currents on the Middle Shoreface in the Presence of the Rhine River Plume Title Near-Bottom Currents on the Middle Shoreface in the Presence of the Rhine River Plume Author Henriquez, M. Meirelles, S. Horner-Devine, A.R. Souza, A.J. Pietrzak, J.D. Stive, M.J.F. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 2014-07-15 Abstract The South-Holland coast of the Netherlands undergoes the influence of the Rhine river plume released from the Rotterdam waterways. An experiment, STRAINS, was conducted to study the impact of the fresh water on the nearshore hydrodynamics and sand transport. As part of the experiment, an instrumented bottom frame measured the near-bed hydrodynamics at 12 m depth. The flow was decomposed in the tidal, wave and turbulent component. During moderate energetic wave conditions the cross-shore tidal flow was of similar magnitude as the wave orbital flow. The cross-shore tidal flow was asymmetric and larger in the seaward direction. The cross-shore tidal component may be generated by tidal straining due to the river plume. Subject field measurementslower shorefacetidal strainingsediment transportICCE 2014 To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d4a57347-08f5-4fc4-a45f-0905895f1c77 Publisher Coastal Engineering Research Council ISBN 978-0-9896611-2-6 Source ICCE 2014: Proceedings of 34th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Seoul, Korea, 15-20 June 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2014 Henriquez, M.Meirelles, S.Horner-Devine, A.R.Souza, A.J.Pietrzak, J.D.Stive, M.J.F. Files PDF 8052-31264-1-PB.pdf 2.04 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:d4a57347-08f5-4fc4-a45f-0905895f1c77/datastream/OBJ/view