Applications of Numerical Simulation of Water Waves in Coastal Waters and Coastal Engineering

Abstract

This book focuses on various unsteady gravity flows with a free surface in nature and engineering, i.e., water waves, and introduces the theories, methodologies, and case studies on numerical simulation. This chapter includes cases of numerical wave modeling in coastal regions of China, and a case of numerical prediction of thirty-year shoreline evolution in the downstream of the breakwater at the Port of Nouakchott in Mauritania. The last case is of particular interest because at the time of this writing, the construction has elapsed twenty-four years in time, which presents data (satellite images) for confirming our numerical predictions.