| The mouth of the Seine has been undergoing intense morphological changes for decades, because of containment work to improve access to the ports of Rouen and Le Havre. A significant trend is the progradation of the downstream estuary. Simultaneously, the surface area of the intertidal mudflats tends to decrease. The estuary's sediments are composed of silt and fine sand (respectively transported from the river Seine and the open sea). Their distribution is linked to the hydrodynamic characteristics of the estuary and may display layered vertical structures. To understand the estuary's morphological changes, a morphodynamic ditigal model is developed from a validated (3D) model of silty sediment transport. A model of suspended fine sand transport as well as... |
