Influence of Wind Force on a Silt-Muddy Coast: Huanghua Harbor Coast, China

Abstract

Huanghua Harbor, a semiclosed harbor with three 13.32–23.4 km-long breakwaters forming a coal port and a general port, is located on the silt-muddy coast of the Bohai Sea in China. Frequent gales cause thick sedimentation at the entrance and in the outer waterway. In this study, a two-dimensional depth-averaged horizontal version of the