Publications by Roham Bakhtyar

Impacts of wave and tidal forcing on 3D nearshore processes on natural beaches. Part II. Sediment transport

This is the second of two papers on the 3D numerical modeling of nearshore hydro- and morphodynamics. In Part I, the focus was on surf and swash zone hydrodynamics in the cross-shore and longshore directions. Here, we consider nearshore processes with an e ...

Techno-Press2016

Impacts of wave and tidal forcing on 3D nearshore processes on natural beaches. Part I: Flow and turbulence fields

David Andrew Barry, Roham Bakhtyar

The major objective of this study was to develop further understanding of 3D nearshore hydrodynamics under a variety of wave and tidal forcing conditions. The main tool used was a comprehensive 3D numerical model – combining the flow module of Delft3D with ...

Techno-Press2016

Direct effects of dominant winds on residence and travel times in the wide and open lacustrine embayment: Vidy Bay (Lake Geneva, Switzerland)

David Andrew Barry, Tamar Kohn, Ulrich Lemmin, Roham Bakhtyar, Florence Bonvin, Amir Mehdi Razmi

Numerical simulations were carried out to determine the residence (or flushing) time of water in Vidy Bay (north shore of Lake Geneva) for different meteorological conditions. A hydrodynamic model (Delft3DFLOW) was applied to simulate the flow field in the ...

Springer Verlag2014

Transport of variable-density solute plumes in beach aquifers in response to oceanic forcing

David Andrew Barry, Alessandro Brovelli, Roham Bakhtyar, Clare Robinson

A comprehensive numerical study was undertaken to investigate transport of a variable-density, conservative solute plume in an unconfined coastal aquifer subject to high and low frequency oceanic forcing. The model combined variable-density saturated flow ...

Elsevier2013

Experiments and numerical modeling of baffle configuration effects on the performance of sedimentation tanks

David Andrew Barry, Roham Bakhtyar, Amir Mehdi Razmi

The hydraulic efficiency of sedimentation basins is reduced by short-circuiting, circulation zones and bottom particle-laden jets. Baffles are used to improve sediment tank performance. In this study, laboratory experiments were used to examine the hydrody ...

National Research Council Canada2013

Two-phase flow modeling of the influence of wave shapes and bed slope on nearshore hydrodynamics

David Andrew Barry, Roham Bakhtyar, Amir Mehdi Razmi

An Eulerian two-phase flow model (air-water) was used to simulate nearshore hydrodynamic processes driven by wave motion. The flow field was computed with the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations in conjunction with the Volume-Of-Fluid method and the ...

Coastal Education and Research Foundation2013

Numerical experiments on interactions between wave motion and variable-density coastal aquifers

David Andrew Barry, Alessandro Brovelli, Roham Bakhtyar

A comprehensive two-dimensional (cross-shore) process-based numerical model of nearshore hydrodynamics (based on the Navier-Stokes equations, k-ε turbulence closure and the Volume-Of-Fluid method), beach morphology, and variable-density groundwater flow (S ...

Elsevier2012

Numerical experiments on breaking waves on contrasting beaches using a two-phase flow approach

David Andrew Barry, Roham Bakhtyar

A mechanistic understanding of beach environments needs to account for interactions of oceanic forcing and beach materials, in particular the role of waves on the evolution of the beach profile. A fully coupled two-phase flow model was used to simulate nea ...

Elsevier2012

An application of Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms for Determining Concentration and Velocity Profiles in Sheet flows and Overlying Layers

David Andrew Barry, Roham Bakhtyar

The Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) method and the Genetic Algorithm (GA) were used to derive formulas for determining the velocity and concentration profiles in sheet flows. Specifically, these evolutionary optimization algorithms were used in conjuncti ...

Asme-Amer Soc Mechanical Eng2012

Numerical experiments of breaking waves on dissipative and intermediate beaches using a two-phase flow method

David Andrew Barry, Roham Bakhtyar

A fully coupled two-phase flow model was developed to simulate nearshore fluid-sediment turbulent flow. It includes the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations and turbu¬lent stress closures for each phase, and accounts for inter-granular stresses. It wa ...

2011