Impact of Reduced Fluvial Sediment Supply on Saltwater Intrusion in the Yangtze Estuary

A decline of the fluvial sediment supply leads to coastal erosion and land loss. However, the fluvial sediment load may influence not only coastal morphodynamics but also estuarine hydrodynamics and associated saltwater intrusion. Previous studies revealed that suspended sediments influence estuarine hydrodynamics through various flow...

Analysis of the impact of sedimentological heterogeneity and fractures on fluid flow properties in a deltaic reservoir setting using numerical models

Process-based numerical simulations in river delta modelling have demonstrated the importance of hydraulic and sedimentary forcing mechanisms on delta morphodynamics. Insights of these simulations on deltaic systems have a high potential to improve reservoir predictions in the industry. However, detailed morphological studies are typically...

Analysis of the effects of process variations on delta morphology and stratigraphy in Delft3D computational models

Deltaic reservoirs are of great significance in both exploration and production of oil & gas and they have aroused increasing interest during the recent years. Coastal engineering deals with sediment transport on a millisecond and micron scale, while geology deals with sequence stratigraphy on a millenary and 10-100 km scale. However, relatively...

Untangling Sea Level and Sediment Supply History of the Panther Tongue Delta, Utah, USA

The Panther Tongue is a fluvio-deltaic parasequence in the lower part of the Star Point Sandstone formation in the Wasatch Plateau, central Utah, deposited during the late Cretaceous period. The sedimentology of the Panther Tongue and adjacent beach ridges parasequence has been extensively described by Hwang & Heller (2002) and Hampson et al. ...

Reconstruction of sediment supply from mass accumulation rates in the Northern Adriatic Basin (Italy) over the past 19,000 years

Reconstruction of sediment supply is hampered by the incompleteness of the stratigraphic record. This problem may be partly circumvented by studying mass accumulation rates in closed systems, i.e., basins in which no sediment has bypassed the site of deposition over the time interval of interest. We present time-averaged basin-wide mass...

Modelleren van een kunstmatige rivier ter plaatse van de Hondsbossche en Pettemer zeewering

Het onderwerp van dit afstudeerproject is ontstaan naar aanleiding van een prijsvraag van de gemeente Zijpe. Ter gelegenheid van het 400-jarig bestaan van de Zijpe en Hazepolder werd een prijsvraag uitgeschreven met als onderwerp: "kijk op de kust". Door de TU-Delft, in samenwerking met Alkyon, werd aan de prijsvraag meegedaan. Hun "kijk op de...