Advances in morphodynamic modeling of tidal inlet systems

Vast tidal inlet systems can be found widely at home and abroad.The tidal inlet systems are characteristically with complicated morphodynamic evolution.In this paper,the advances in morphodynamic model of tidal inlet systems,including the bed state module,hydrodynamics module,sediment transport module and bed updating module,are introduced in detail.Especially,the different approaches of the bed updating and their computational results are discussed and compared.Then the sediment transport by waves and tidal currents and the coupling computation of different sedimentary processes are the focal points in future.