: -The Meghna Estuary region of Bangladesh is a unique environment where the constant process of land formation and erosion takes place due to the complex interactions between large river discharge, enormous sediment load, strong tidal forces, wind actions, wave, salinity & cyclonic storm surge and estuarine circulation. These hydrodynamic factors and their interactions shape the morphology of the Meghna Estuary. During dry season upland fresh water flow into the Bay through the estuary is very much lower than that of monsoon season. Tidal action becomes stronger and dominates water flow pattern in the Meghna estuary. The distribution of flow and water level in the different channels of the Meghna estuary are governed by river discharge, the tide and the wind speed. Velocity is higher during ebb tide than that of flood tide due to combined effect of upstream flow and downward tidal current. Velocity in monsoon is much higher compare to dry period because upstream discharge is higher in monsoon. Most of the accretion and erosion mainly occurs during monsoon and post monsoon period. In pre-monsoon and post monsoon, wave height is less compared to monsoon as wind speed is less during these periods. Along the left Bank of this estuary, significant wave is considerable. As a result, tremendous whirl action due to tidal effects and whirl action due to enormous drainage flow during monsoon, wave action, tidal surge of the lower Meghna causes breaching of the major parts of the embankments of polder 59/2 and adjacent area. The main purpose of this research paper is to understand the hydrodynamic features of the Meghna estuary.
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