Author: Priya Krishnamoorthy Lakshmi

K.L.Priya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, India. Her research interests include estuarine hydrodynamics, estuarine sediment dynamics, trace metal partitioning, contaminant transport through porous media and groundwater quality modelling. A. M. Hoguane is a Professor of Physical Oceanography and Director of the Marine Research and Technology Centre-Ce PTMar at the Eduardo Mondlane University, Quelimane, Mozambique, his research interest are coastal, estuarine and shelf seas hydrodynamics and water quality; waves and coastal currents; river runoff and coastal water productivity; applied oceanography to fish distribution and availability; integrated coastal zone management; alternative energy sources from the sea. S. Haddout is researcher in fluid mechanics and modeling in the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Ibn tofail University, Morocco. His recent research interests concern the Environmental Fluid Mechanics; Hydrodynamic Modeling of Estuaries; Hydraulic modeling; Numerical Modeling; Analytical modeling; Transport modeling; Water managements; Limnology and oceanography; and Optimization methods.