The influence of the tide, wind and waves on the large-scale sediment transport patterns in the Dutch Wadden Sea
S.V. Bult (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
Z.B. Wang – Mentor (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
Edwin P.L. Elias – Mentor
Stefan Pluis – Graduation committee member (Rijkswaterstaat)
B.C. van Prooijen – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
J.A. Alvarez Antolinez – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
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Abstract
The Wadden Sea is a large system of tidal flats and barrier islands. Its individual features have been heavily researched, but sufficient knowledge on the sediment transport patterns on the scale of the Wadden Sea is not yet available. This thesis aims to indicate the dominant sediment transport patterns in the Dutch Wadden Sea and the hydrodynamic forcing mechanism the patterns can be attributed to. The Delft3D-FM model used to indicate these patterns is first adapted by implementing an improved Manning’s roughness field. To assess the patterns for each contributing hydrodynamic forcing mechanism, the tide, wind and waves are added to the model one by one. The results show that the Dutch Wadden Sea is a highly interconnected system, with the influence of each hydrodynamic forcing mechanism depending on the feature and inlet system.