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As estuaries are three dimensional and time dependent, numerical models have been developed to overcome the simplifications inherent to the already studied analytical models (simple geometry, steady-state) and calculate estuarine circulation and salinity distributions. These models can be numerically integrated at selected grid points spatially distributed in the system domain; the governing partial differential equations use methods of finite-difference or finite-elements in curvilinear horizontal coordinates or sigma vertical coordinates, respectively.
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Bruner de Miranda, L., Andutta, F.P., Kjerfve, B., de Castro Filho, B.M. (2017). Numerical Hydrodynamic Modelling. In: Fundamentals of Estuarine Physical Oceanography. Ocean Engineering & Oceanography, vol 8. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3041-3_12
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