Simulation of Sediment Discharges during an Outfall Dredging Operation

Table 2

Summary of CORMIX-GTS iterative simulations results on varying the ambient velocity for discharges at 400 m offshore.

Ambient; velocity; (m/s)	Flow class	Initial resuspension			100 m		500 m		1000 m
		At; (m)	Total; (kg/m^3)	Clay; (kg/m^3)	Total; (kg/m^3)	Clay; (kg/m^3)	Total; (kg/m^3)	Clay; (kg/m^3)	Total; (kg/m^3)	Clay; (kg/m^3)
0.2	IV5	24.95	0.06	0.03	0.37	0.18	0.28	0.14	0.23	0.13
0.25	IV5	23.03	0.13	0.06	0.56	0.26	0.41	0.20	0.33	0.17
0.3	IV5	21.84	0.22	0.10	0.79	0.36	0.54	0.26	0.42	0.21
0.35	IV5	21.02	0.36	0.16	1.07	0.49	0.68	0.33	0.50	0.25
0.4	IV5	20.46	0.61	0.27	1.44	0.65	0.82	0.39	0.58	0.29
0.45	IV5	19.97	1.06	0.46	1.94	0.87	0.98	0.47	0.67	0.33
0.5	IV5	19.54	2.01	0.85	2.69	1.20	1.24	0.59	0.81	0.41
0.55	IV5	19.58	3.30	1.38	4.25	1.91	1.85	0.89	1.18	0.61
0.6	IV4	22.91	14.11	6.06	12.68	5.79	5.35	2.76	3.34	1.90
0.65	IV4	23.30	14.83	6.36	13.26	6.06	5.59	2.88	3.49	1.97
0.7	IV4	23.60	15.40	6.59	13.82	6.31	5.83	3.00	3.64	2.05