SYMBOLS AND DEFINITIONS--Continued 

 M number of inlets connecting a bay to a sea 

 n Manning's n 



n- ■ Manning's n o£ a grid cell 



''J 



Q discharge 



C^ discharge for the mth inlet 



Qy total discharge for all inlets 



r hydraulic radius of a channel 



T^ inlet -bay system Helmholtz period 



Tjj' frictionless inlet-bay system Helmholtz period 



T^ period of free mode of oscillation where the subscript 

 indicates the mode of oscillation 



t time 



V mean instantaneous inlet water velocity at a cross section 



V mean inlet water velocity at a cross section over a 

 sampling interval 



W • ■ the grid cell weighting function which is the fraction of 

 total inlet discharge passing through the cell at a time 

 step 



X distance along the longitudinal axis of the inlet 



y distance along a cross section 



At time step 



(t_„)_ component of the bottom-stress tensor in the direction of 

 flow 



