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Estuarine Processes - CVEN7813
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 3
 
 
EFTSL: 0.06250 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 21
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Exclusion: CVEN9863
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

The objective of this subject is to extend the student s knowledge of physical and biochemical processes which occur in estuaries and how to measure, model and predict those processes. Topics include estuarine classification and density structure. Tides and water level response of estuaries. Tidal flushing of estuaries and inlets. Mixing processes and random walk and box models. Two layer models. Difference models for hydrodynamics and algal dynamics. Biochemical processes in estuaries.

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