Numerical Simulation of Shallow Water Waves in Coastal Regions

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. When the waves propagate in coastal waters, some wave phenomena such as shoaling, refraction, diffraction, reflection, and wave breaking may occur due to the effect of the bathymetry and the coastal structures, so that the characteristic parameters of waves change. This chapter describes numerical simulation of shallow water waves in coastal regions.