A THREE-DIMENSIONAL NON-HYDROSTATIC NUMERICAL MODEL FOR PREDICTION OF CURRENT CIRCULATION IN THE PERSIAN GULF

omputational cost and simple formulation, has been extensively used in modeling of flow and transport in oceanic water bodies. However, over the past years, there has been a growing demand for three-dimensional hydrodynamic models in oceanic and estuarine studies, particularly where the ratio of the vertical to horizontal scale of motion is not small. This paper presents the development and application of a three-dimensional numerical model to simulate the hydrodynamics and scalar transport in oceanic water bodies. The hydrodynamic module is based on the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations, and is capable of solving the non-hydrostatic equations as well as giving a solution with the hydrostatic assumption. The transport module solves the transport equations of salinity and temperature