This technical manual details the SWAN (Simulating Waves Nearshore) computer model, developed by Oceanic & Coastal Waters Wave Model. Published in 2007, SWAN is a sophisticated tool designed for the observation, analysis, and prediction of wind-generated waves. Its application extends across diverse environments, including open oceans, shelf seas, and intricate coastal regions such as islands, channels, tidal flats, inlets, estuaries, fjords, and lagoons. The model's approach is grounded in physical principles, statistical concepts, and spectral energy balance, offering a comprehensive framework for understanding wave dynamics.
This English-language technical book, authored by Leo H. Holthuijsen and published by Cambridge University Press, serves as an in-depth resource for graduate students, researchers, and engineers with a foundational understanding of physics, mathematics, and statistics. It covers the physical aspects, statistical concepts, and spectral energy balance crucial for wave modeling. The manual is richly illustrated and provides detailed insights into the SWAN model's capabilities, methodology, and application areas, facilitating advanced study and practical implementation in oceanography and wave mechanics.
Waves in Oceanic and Coastal Waters describes the observation, analysis and prediction of wind-generated waves in the open ocean, in shelf seas, and in coastal regions with islands, channels, tidal flats and inlets, estuaries, fjords and lagoons. The book brings graduate students, researchers and engineers up-to-date with the science and technology involved, assuming only a basic understanding of physics, mathematics and statistics. Most of this richly illustrated book is devoted to the physical aspects of waves. After introducing observation techniques for waves, both at sea and from space, the book defines the parameters that characterize waves. Using basic statistical and physical concepts, the author discusses the prediction of waves in oceanic and coastal waters, first in terms of generalized observations, and then in terms of the more theoretical framework of the spectral energy balance. He gives the results of established theories and also the direction in which research is developing. The book ends with a description of SWAN (Simulating Waves Nearshore), the preferred computer model of the engineering community for predicting waves in coastal waters.
Author: Holthuijsen,Leo H.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Waves in Oceanic and Coastal Waters
Pages: 00404 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2007-01-31
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780521860284
Category: Science : Earth Sciences - Oceanography
Category: Science : Waves & Wave Mechanics
Category: Science : Environmental Science
Waves in Oceanic and Coastal Waters describes the observation, analysis and prediction of wind-generated waves in the open ocean, in shelf seas, and in coastal regions with islands, channels, tidal flats and inlets, estuaries, fjords and lagoons. The book brings graduate students, researchers and engineers up-to-date with the science and technology involved, assuming only a basic understanding of physics, mathematics and statistics. Most of this richly illustrated book is devoted to the physical aspects of waves. After introducing observation techniques for waves, both at sea and from space, the book defines the parameters that characterize waves. Using basic statistical and physical concepts, the author discusses the prediction of waves in oceanic and coastal waters, first in terms of generalized observations, and then in terms of the more theoretical framework of the spectral energy balance. He gives the results of established theories and also the direction in which research is developing. The book ends with a description of SWAN (Simulating Waves Nearshore), the preferred computer model of the engineering community for predicting waves in coastal waters.
Author: Holthuijsen,Leo H.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Waves in Oceanic and Coastal Waters
Pages: 00404 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2007-01-31
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780521860284
Category: Science : Earth Sciences - Oceanography
Category: Science : Waves & Wave Mechanics
Category: Science : Environmental Science
