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Since the mid-1970s SMEC's experience has
extended into estuarine and near coastal hydrodynamics - a natural
offshoot of many of our river basin studies and also based on developments
in our Fluid Mechanics Laboratory. These studies have encompassed:
- numerical and physical modeling of river mouth and near shore ocean
wave conditions
- salinity intrusion studies
- coastal sediment transport
- wave and tide behaviour
- breakwater layouts
- dredging investigations, and
- model testing of wave breaking and force characteristics.
Over the years numerous mathematical models have been developed and operated
in these fields, including:
- one and two dimensional models of river flooding
- circulation studies
- waves and wave refraction
- tidal analysis
- spectral analysis, and
- sediment transport behaviour.
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In addition to its in-house resources SMEC also forms associations with other
national and international organisations as appropriate.
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