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Flushing of the port
of Ensenada using a SIBEO wave-driven seawater pump
Steven Peter Czitrom, Cesar Coronado and Ismael Nuñez |
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Vol. 2 (2007), No. 8, 1459–1469
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Abstract |
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A SIBEO wave-driven seawater pump is proposed to inject clean and oxygen-rich seawater from outside the port of Ensenada, Baja California, to promote flushing in the more stagnant sections of the harbor. Results from a simple two-dimensional numerical model of the port hydrodynamics shed light on how the tides cannot on their own adequately flush the system. A three-dimensional model, which includes thermal stratification, illustrates how the pumped seawater ventilation can spread throughout the harbor via a density channel set up by the seasonal thermocline. |
Keywords
wave energy, flushing of stagnant coastal water bodies
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Milestones
Received: 17 August 2006
Revised: 17 April 2007
Accepted: 20 April 2007
Published: 1 October 2007
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Authors |
| Steven Peter Czitrom | |
| Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y
Limnología Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Circuito Exterior S/N Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 México D.F. Mexico |
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| Cesar Coronado | |
| Centro de Investigación Científica y
de Educación Superior de Ensenada Km 107 Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada 22860 Ensenada Baja California Mexico |
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| Ismael Nuñez | |
| Alfred-Wegener Institut für Polar
und Meeresforschung, Bussestrasse 24 D-27570, Bremerhaven Germany |
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