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Theoretical analysis and experimental study of oxygen transfer under regular and non-breaking waves

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The dissolved oxygen concentration is an important index of water quality, and the atmosphere is one of the important sources of the dissolved oxygen. In this paper, the mass conservation law and the dimensional analysis method are employed to study the oxygen transfer under regular and non-breaking waves, and a unified oxygen transfer coefficient equation is obtained with consideration of the effect of kinetic energy and wave period. An oxygen transfer experiment for the intermediate depth water wave is performed to measure the wave parameters and the dissolved oxygen concentration. The experimental data and the least squares method are used to determine the constant in the oxygen transfer coefficient equation. The experimental data and the previous reported data are also used to further validate the oxygen transfer coefficient, and the agreement is satisfactory. The unified equation shows that the oxygen transfer coefficient increases with the increase of a parameter coupled with the wave height and the wave length, but it decreases with the increase of the wave period, which has a much greater influence on the oxygen transfer coefficient than the coupled parameter.

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  1. Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering and Engineering College, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

    Ze-gao Yin  (尹则高)

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

    Ze-gao Yin  (尹则高)

  3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

    Zhu Z. David

  4. Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering and Engineering College, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

    Bing-chen Liang  (梁丙臣)

  5. Engineering College, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

    Le Wang  (王乐)

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51009123, 50809065), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Grant No. ZR2009FQ003).

Biography: Yin Ze-gao (1977-), Male, Ph. D., Associate Professor

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Yin, Zg., David, Z.Z., Liang, Bc. et al. Theoretical analysis and experimental study of oxygen transfer under regular and non-breaking waves. J Hydrodyn 25, 718–724 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1001-6058(13)60417-5

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