TY - JOUR
T1 - A framework to quantify flow through coral reefs of varying coral cover and morphology
AU - Pomeroy, Andrew
AU - Ghisalberti, Marco
AU - Peterson, Michael
AU - Etminan Farooji, Vahid
N1 - Funding Information:
AWP would like to acknowledge the funding that was provided to this project in part by an Australian American Fulbright Fellowship and UWA-AIMS Postdoctoral Fellowship. This work was supported by resources provided by the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre with funding from the Australian Government and the Government of Western Australia. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Pomeroy et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - Flow velocities within coral reefs are greatly reduced relative to those at the water surface. The in-reef flow controls key processes that flush heat, cycle nutrients and transport sediment from the reef to adjacent beaches, all key considerations in assessments of reef resilience and restoration interventions. An analytical framework is proposed and tested with a suite of high-resolution numerical experiments. We demonstrate a single parameter that describes the total coral frontal area explains variation of horizontally averaged velocity within a reef canopy across morphologies, densities, and flow depths. With the integration of existing data of coral cover and geometry, this framework is a practical step towards the prediction of near-bed flows in diverse reef environments.
AB - Flow velocities within coral reefs are greatly reduced relative to those at the water surface. The in-reef flow controls key processes that flush heat, cycle nutrients and transport sediment from the reef to adjacent beaches, all key considerations in assessments of reef resilience and restoration interventions. An analytical framework is proposed and tested with a suite of high-resolution numerical experiments. We demonstrate a single parameter that describes the total coral frontal area explains variation of horizontally averaged velocity within a reef canopy across morphologies, densities, and flow depths. With the integration of existing data of coral cover and geometry, this framework is a practical step towards the prediction of near-bed flows in diverse reef environments.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0279623
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0279623
M3 - Article
C2 - 36652422
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 18
JO - PLoS One
JF - PLoS One
IS - 1 January
M1 - e0279623
ER -