Advances in Coastal Modeling

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V.C. Lakhan
Elsevier, 2003 M10 24 - 614 pages
This book unifies and enhances the accessibility of contemporary scholarly research on advances in coastal modeling. A comprehensive spectrum of innovative models addresses the wide diversity and multifaceted aspects of coastal research on the complex natural processes, dynamics, interactions and responses of the coastal supersystem and its associated subsystems.

The twenty-one chapters, contributed by internationally recognized coastal experts from fourteen countries, provide invaluable insights on the recent advances and present state-of-the-art knowledge on coastal models which are essential for not only illuminating the governing coastal process and various characteristics, but also for understanding and predicting the dynamics at work in the coastal system.

One of the unique strengths of the book is the impressive and encompassing presentation of current functional and operational coastal models for all those concerned with and interested in the modeling of seas, oceans and coasts. In addition to chapters modeling the dynamic natural processes of waves, currents, circulatory flows and sediment transport there are also chapters that focus on the modeling of beaches, shorelines, tidal basins and shore platforms.

The substantial scope of the book is further strengthened with chapters concentrating on the effects of coastal structures on nearshore flows, coastal water quality, coastal pollution, coastal ecological modeling, statistical data modeling, and coupling of coastal models with geographical information systems.

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Chapter 1 Boussinesq Models and Applications to Nearshore Wave Propagation Surf Zone Processes and WaveInduced Currents
1
Chapter 2 Frequency Domain Wave Models in the Nearshore and Surf Zones
43
Chapter 3 Advanced Numerical Methods for Coastal Hydrodynamics
73
Chapter 4 Numerical Models for Nearshore Currents
93
Chapter 5 Spectral Wave Models in Coastal Areas
133
Chapter 6 Probabilistic Models of Waves in the Coastal Zone
159
Chapter 7 Modeling the Effects of Permeable and Reflective Structures on Waves and Nearshore Flows
189
Chapter 8 Perspective on Evolution in Sediment Modeling
217
Chapter 13 Morphodynamic Modeling of Tidal Basins and Coastal Inlets
367
Present Status and Future Developments
393
Perspectives from the Great Barrier Reef
411
Chapter 16 A Numerical Simulation of JapanEast Sea JES Thermohaline Structure and Circula tion
431
Chapter 17 Analytical Modeling of Pollution Flushing in WellMixed Tidal Embayments
467
Chapter 18 Advances in Water Quality Modeling in the Coastal Environment
491
Chapter 19 Neural Network Applications in Coastal Ecological Modeling
505
Chapter 20 SpaceTime Transfer Function Models of Beach and Shoreline Data for MediumTerm Shoreline Monitoring Programs
533

Chapter 9 LargeScale Finite Element Modeling and Parallel Computation of Sediment Transport in Coastal Areas
237
Chapter 10 Nonlinear Wave Modeling and Sediment Transport in the Surf and Swash Zone
267
Chapter 11 Modeling the Morphological Response in a Coastal Zone for Different Temporal Scales
299
Chapter 12 Numerical Modeling of Beach Topography Change
337
An Overview
553
Index
581
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