Coastal water environment regulation and simulation based on tidal power control

Department of River & Coastal Engineering of The Pearl River Hydraulic Research Institute, 510000 Guangzhou City, China

^a Corresponding author: wanghua@pearlwater.gov.cn

Abstract

As the carrier of water resources, water environment and water ecology, river course is very important to human and ecological environment in coastal areas. The rapid economic development of coastal areas needs to take into account the improvement of regional water environment in order to achieve a higher level of development. The characteristics of coastal water environment are closely related to tidal fluctuation. It is an important direction for coastal water control to improve the water environment and restore the self-purification capacity of the river by guiding and draining the tidal power. In this paper, the YACHONG River Basin, which borders Macau and Zhuhai, is selected as the study area. The semi-exchange period and water exchange rate are taken as the main evaluation indexes. The water quantity and quality model is used to simulate the scenario model and analyze the effect of water diversion and drainage regulation in different tidal periods. The results show that, compared with the drainage dispatch during spring tide, the drainage dispatch during neap tide prolongs the water exchange time, and the effect of water exchange is obviously better than that during spring tide. The research results of this paper provide reference for water environmental regulation in coastal area.