Zhanfeng Cui

Aug 11, 2024 | mdpi.com | Dechao Hu |Zhanfeng Cui |Xin Zeng |Jianyin Zhou

1. IntroductionThe Yangtze Estuary has three-level bifurcations (the North and the South Branches, the North and the South Channels, and the North and the South Passages) and four outlets into the sea (Figure 1). The North Branch and the South Branch of the Yangtze Estuary are, respectively, written as N-Branch and S-Branch for short. The Yangtze Estuary has a complex tidal flow, sediment transport, and morphological dynamics [1,2,3,4], and the horizontal shape of the N-Branch is weird.