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23 December 2025

Flash floods are among the most destructive hazards in northeastern Bangladesh, particularly in Sylhet district, where intense rainfall from the Meghalaya hills generates rapid inundation of low-lying areas. This study applies the Delft3D Flexible Me...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrological and Hydrodynamic Processes and Modelling)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,952 Views
20 Pages

Urban coastal flooding is a global humanitarian and socioeconomic hazard. Rising sea levels will increase the likelihood of hydrologic events interacting with high marine water levels. These compound events may, in turn, nonlinearly interact with urb...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coastal Flooding: Causes, Impacts and Mitigation)
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  • Open Access
2,131 Views
19 Pages

Hydrodynamic Modeling as a Decision-Support Tool for Coastal Management in Large Amazonian Estuaries: A Case Study in the Pará River System, Brazil

  • Ana Hilza Barros Queiroz,
  • Marco Antônio Vieira Callado,
  • Iago Vasconcelos Gadelha Barbosa,
  • Thaís Angélica da Costa Borba and
  • Marcelo Rollnic

Tropical estuaries are socioeconomically important yet highly vulnerable environments. In the eastern Amazon, the Pará River Estuary (PRE) and adjacent water bodies support the city of Belém and are increasingly affected by environmenta...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrological and Hydrodynamic Processes and Modelling)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,512 Views
23 Pages

Evaluation of Tidal Asymmetry and Its Effect on Tidal Energy Resources in the Great Island Region of the Gulf of California

  • Anahí Bermúdez-Romero,
  • Vanesa Magar,
  • Manuel López-Mariscal and
  • Jonas D. De Basabe

2 October 2024

Hydrokinetic tidal energy is one of the few marine renewable energy resources with sufficiently mature technology for commercial exploitation. However, several parameters affect its exploitability, such as the minimum speed threshold, ambient turbule...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Marine Computational Fluid Dynamics)
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  • Open Access
J. Mar. Sci. Eng.2026, 14(22), 2163;https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse14222163 
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14 November 2026

Tidal propagation and flood-ebb current asymmetry influence inundation and sediment redistribution in coastal deltas, with considerable spatial variation across interconnected estuaries such as those of the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna (GBM)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Regional Physical Oceanography: Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Observations and Numerical Simulations)
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  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,234 Views
26 Pages

17 December 2018

The highly urbanized estuary of San Francisco Bay is an excellent example of a location susceptible to flooding from both coastal and fluvial influences. As part of developing a forecast model that integrates fluvial and oceanic drivers, a case study...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 15th Estuarine and Coastal Modeling Conference)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,368 Views
20 Pages

Morphological Response of a Highly Engineered Estuary to Altering Channel Depth and Restoring Wetlands

  • Rutger W. A. Siemes,
  • Trang Minh Duong,
  • Pim W. J. M. Willemsen,
  • Bas W. Borsje and
  • Suzanne J. M. H. Hulscher

11 November 2023

Estuaries are continuously adapting to anthropogenic pressure. Because of sea-level rise and reduced fluvial sediment supply, they are at risk of sediment starvation. Contrarily, some estuaries require frequent dredging after artificially deepening t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploring Coastal Hydraulic and Sediment Processes for Coastal Safety in a Changing Climate)
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  • Open Access
758 Views
33 Pages

2 June 2026

Anabranching, sedimentation, island growth, and bank scouring are key morphological processes occurring in the Tigris River. These processes can disrupt navigation, affect water intake, and compromise the safety of infrastructure near the riverbanks....

(This article belongs to the Topic Hydraulic Engineering and Modelling)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,059 Views
16 Pages

Rapid Assessment of Tsunami Offshore Propagation and Inundation with D-FLOW Flexible Mesh and SFINCS for the 2011 Tōhoku Tsunami in Japan

  • Björn R. Röbke,
  • Tim Leijnse,
  • Gundula Winter,
  • Maarten van Ormondt and ,
  • Joana van Nieuwkoop and
  • Reimer de Graaff
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This study demonstrates the skills of D-FLOW Flexible Mesh (FM) and SFINCS (Super-Fast INundation of CoastS) in combination with the Delft Dashboard Tsunami Toolbox to numerically simulate tsunami offshore propagation and inundation based on the exam...

(This article belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,536 Views
15 Pages

Hydraulic Modeling of Extreme Flow Events in a Boreal Regulated River to Assess Impact on Grayling Habitat

  • M. Lovisa Sjöstedt,
  • J. Gunnar I. Hellström,
  • Anders G. Andersson and
  • Jani Ahonen

26 July 2025

Climate change is projected to significantly alter hydrological conditions across the Northern Hemisphere, with increased precipitation variability, more intense rainfall events, and earlier, rain-driven spring floods in regions like northern Sweden....

(This article belongs to the Section Ecohydrology)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,124 Views
20 Pages

Impact of Tidal Phase on Inundation and Thrust Force Due to Storm Surge

  • A. S. M. Alauddin Al Azad,
  • Kazi Samsunnahar Mita,
  • Md. Wasif Zaman,
  • Marin Akter and ,
  • Tansir Zaman Asik,
  • Anisul Haque,
  • Mohammad Asad Hussain and
  • Md. Munsur Rahman
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

28 September 2018

Impact of storm surge largely varies depending on the tidal phase during the landfall of a tropical cyclone. This study investigates comparative variance in inundation condition and thrust force for an identical cyclone during low tide and high tide...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,116 Views
24 Pages

31 October 2020

A comprehensive case study of Keansburg Inlet (New Jersey, USA) is presented with the objective of evaluating inlet management alternatives and assessing the influence of an operational flood gate on channel shoaling. The goal of the research is dete...

(This article belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,028 Views
25 Pages

Representing Small Shallow Water Estuary Hydrodynamics to Uncover Litter Transport Patterns

  • Lubna Benchama Ahnouch,
  • Frans Buschman,
  • Helene Boisgontier,
  • Ana Bio and ,
  • Luis R. Vieira,
  • Sara C. Antunes,
  • Gary F. Kett,
  • Isabel Sousa-Pinto and
  • Isabel Iglesias
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

12 September 2025

Plastic pollution is an increasing global concern, with estuaries being especially vulnerable as transition zones between freshwater and marine systems. These ecosystems often accumulate large amounts of waste, affecting wildlife and water quality. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Marine Plastic Pollution: Recent Advances and Future Challenges)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,590 Views
23 Pages

Investigating Steady-State Interpolation and Transient Hydraulic Modelling to Evaluate European Grayling Habitat in a Hydropeaking River

  • Frida M. Niemi,
  • Anders G. Andersson,
  • J. Gunnar I. Hellström,
  • Mahboobeh Hajiesmaeili and
  • David Aldvén

4 April 2025

Renewable energy sources such as hydropower are important to reduce the global emissions. Hydropower, however, comes with other environmental challenges by altering the ecological conditions in the rivers. Hydraulic models connected with fish habitat...