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The settling flux of biodeposition affects the environmental quality of cage culture areas and determines their environmental carrying capacity. Simple and effective simulation of the settling flux of biodeposition is extremely important for determining the spatial distribution of biodeposition. Theoretically, biodeposition in cage culture areas without specific emission rules can be simplified as point source pollution. Fluent is a fluid simulation software that can simulate the dispersion of particulate matter simply and efficiently. Based on the simplification of pollution sources and bays, the settling flux of biodeposition can be easily and effectively simulated by Fluent fluid software. In the present work, the feasibility of this method was evaluated by simulation of the settling flux of biodeposition in Maniao Bay, Hainan Province, China, and 20 sampling sites were selected for determining the settling fluxes. At sampling sites P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4, A1, A2, A3, A4, B1, B2, C1, C2, C3 and C4, the measured settling fluxes of biodeposition were 26.02, 15.78, 10.77, 58.16, 6.57, 72.17, 12.37, 12.11, 106.64, 150.96, 22.59, 11.41, 18.03, 7.90, 19.23, 7.06, 11.84, 5.19 and 2.57 g d−1 m−2, respectively. The simulated settling fluxes of biodeposition at the corresponding sites were 16.03, 23.98, 8.87, 46.90, 4.52, 104.77, 16.03, 8.35, 180.83, 213.06, 39.10, 17.47, 20.98, 9.78, 23.25, 7.84, 15.90, 6.06 and 1.65gd−1 m−2, respectively. There was a positive correlation between the simulated settling fluxes and measured ones (R = 0.94, P = 2.22×10−9 < 0.05), which implies that the spatial differentiation of biodeposition flux was well simulated. Moreover, the posterior difference ratio of the simulation was 0.38, and the small error probability was 0.94, which means that the simulated results reached an acceptable level from the perspective of relative error. Thus, if nonpoint source pollution is simplified to point source pollution and open waters are simplified based on similarity theory, the setting flux of biodeposition in the open waters can be simply and effectively simulated by the fluid simulation software Fluent.
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The authors are grateful to financial support from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2018YFD0900704), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31972796).
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Liu, Y., Chen, Y. & Ge, C. Numerical Simulation of the Settling Flux of Biodeposition in a Bay with Cage Culture Through Similarity Theory and a Simplified Pollution Source. J. Ocean Univ. China 23, 247–254 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11802-023-5696-0
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