There is an increasing need for model coupling. However, model coupling is complicated. Scientists develop and improve models to represent physical processes occurring in nature. These models are built in different software programs required to run the model. A software program or application represents part of the system knowledge. This knowledge is however encapsulated in the program and ofte...

Bed sediment, velocity and turbidity data are presented from a large (145 km long), generally well-mixed, micro-tidal estuary in south-eastern Australia. The percentage of mud in the bed sediments reaches a maximum in a relatively narrow zone centred 30±40 km from the estuary mouth. Regular tidal resuspension of these bed sediments produces a turbidity maximum (TM) zone in the same location. Th...

Saltwater intrusion (SWI) is a widespread environmental problem that poses threat to coastal aquifers. To address this issue, research employs both numerical and experimental methods study saltwater under the impact of sea level rise varying freshwater boundary conditions in two homogeneous The compares transient groundwater heads salt concentrations results receding-front advancing front condi...

Analytical methods and numerical experiments are used to study salinization of groundwater in response to sea level rise. The system that is studied involves a saturated porous medium with an inclined upper surface. The upper surface is progressively inundated during sea level rise to simulate transgression, the landward migration of the shoreline. Four "modes" of seawater intrusion are disting...

Jrntravenous salt-loading tests were performed in 20 hypertensive and 31 normotensive subjects. During the following 5 half-hour collection periods both water and salt excretion by the hypertensive subjects was higher than by the normotensive ones. The diuretic response was much more prolonged and more pronounced than the saluretic response and appears to be a primary response to the salt load,...

Heterogeneous systems composed of hydrophobic nanoporous materials and water are capable, depending on their characteristics, of efficiently dissipating (dampers) or storing ("molecular springs") energy. However, it is difficult to predict their properties based on macroscopic theories-classical capillarity for intrusion and classical nucleation theory (CNT) for extrusion-because of the peculia...