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Fundamental study on the tidal residual circulation—I

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The tidal residual circulation in a bay was experimentally investigated with use of a hydraulic model. The model basin is a square bay of 5 m sides with a one-sided mouth of 1 m wide. The depth of the basin is 0.1 m. The tide of a six-minute period was provided by a tide generator of plunger type through the mouth. Tidal currents in the bay always flow in one direction though its strengths change according to the tidal phase, that is, a strong tidal residual circulation occurs in the bay. A similar flow pattern was observed to occur in a field with a horizontal boundary geometrically similar to the present model. The vorticity transfer from tidal current to residual flow is balanced with the vorticity advection of residual flow and the dissipation due to the viscosity.

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  1. Department of Ocean Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ehime University, 790, Matsuyama, Japan

    Tetsuo Yanagi

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Yanagi, T. Fundamental study on the tidal residual circulation—I. Journal of the Oceanographical Society of Japan 32, 199–208 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02107122

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