EFFLUENT DISPERSAL IN EUROPEAN COASTAL WATERS
PDF

Keywords

dispersal
effluent dispersal
European water

How to Cite

Prandle, D. (1984). EFFLUENT DISPERSAL IN EUROPEAN COASTAL WATERS. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1(19), 206. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v19.206

Abstract

The mixing of dissolved material discharged from the Windscale nuclear re-processing plant is examined. The first phase involves a numerical modelling study of large-scale long-term mixing over the entire Continental Shelf. The second phase involves a similar modelling study of near-source mixing processes over a region some 100 km square immediately adjacent to the discharge position. In this latter phase, reproduction of instantaneous peak concentrations is required. The first phase of this simulation has been successfully completed while the second phase is presently being considered. Ironically, it is shown that this second phase poses far more difficult modelling problems and hence the accuracy of simulation attained in the first phase may not be reproduced. The contrasts in these two modelling approaches are examined and their varying complexities explained.
https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v19.206
PDF
Authors retain copyright and grant the Proceedings right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this Proceedings.