Seagrass Canopy Sediment Trapping

Seagrass meadows are among the planet's most efficient blue-carbon sinks, and the physical reason is canopy flow: dense fields of shoots slow the water moving through them, quiet near-bed turbulence and let suspended organic particles settle out and stay buried instead of washing away. This simulator renders that mechanism directly — a 3D meadow patch where you control shoot density, canopy height, current speed and particle size, watch the canopy bend and attenuate the flow, and track suspended organic particles as they either settle into the sediment or get swept past the meadow. Live readouts report the canopy flow-attenuation ratio, the fraction of particles actually trapped, and the organic carbon captured so far, following the same drag-balance and Stokes-settling physics used in the seagrass sediment-trapping literature.