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ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES
Volume 110, Issue -, Pages 107-119Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.10.006
Keywords
Intertidal salt marshes; Holocene deposition; Large soil compaction; Numerical modeling; Adaptive mesh
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- Flagship Project RITMARE - The Italian Research for the Sea
- CNR-MIUR
- National Research Program Linea SOLVE
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Salt marshes are vulnerable environments hosting complex interactions between physical and biological processes. The prediction of the elevation dynamics of a salt-marsh platform is crucial to forecast its future behavior under potential changing scenarios. An original finite-element (FE) numerical model accounting for the long-term marsh accretion and compaction linked to relative sea level rise is proposed. The accretion term considers the material sedimentation over the marsh surface, whereas the compaction reflects the progressive consolidation of the porous medium under the increasing load of the overlying younger deposits. The modeling approach is based on a 2D groundwater flow simulator coupled to a 1D vertical geomechanical module, where the soil properties may vary with the effective intergranular stress. The model takes also into account the geometric non-linearity arising from the consideration of large solid grain movements by using a Lagrangian approach with an adaptive FE mesh. The numerical experiments show the potentiality of the proposed 2D model, which consistently integrates in modeling framework the behavior of spatially distributed model parameters. High sedimentation rates and low permeabilities largely impact on the mechanism of soil compaction following the overpressure dissipation.
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