Coastal, Inlet & Wave Modeling with SMS

ADCIRC

ADCIRC is a two-dimensional, depth-integrated, barotropic time-dependent long wave, hydrodynamic circulation model. ADCIRC models can be applied to computational domains encompassing the deep ocean, continental shelves, coastal seas, and small-scale estuarine systems. Typical ADCIRC applications include modeling tides and wind driven circulation, analysis of hurricane storm surge and flooding, dredging feasibility and material disposal studies, larval transport studies, near shore marine operations.

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CMS Flow

CMS-Flow is a component of the Coastal Modeling System, It is a finite-volume numerical engine which includes the capabilities to compute both hydrodynamics (water levels and current flow values under any combination of tide, wind, surge, waves and river flow) sediment transport as bedload, suspended load, and total load, and morphology change.

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CMS Wave

CMS-Wave, a principal component of the Coastal Modeling System, is a phase-averaged, 2D wave spectral transformation model for approximating wave diffraction and reflection in a nearshore domain. The model is a steady-state, finite difference, spectral model based on the wave action balance equation.

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CGWAVE

CGWAVE is a general-purpose, two-dimensional wave prediction model for simulating the propagation and transformation of ocean waves in coastal regions and harbors. The model is appropriate for modeling the most significant physical processes in channels, inlets and harbors, open coastal regions, around islands and structures.

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BOUSS-2D

BOUSS-2D is a comprehensive numerical model for simulating the propagation and transformation of waves in coastal regions and harbors based on a time-domain solution of Boussinesq-type equations. The governing equations are uniformly valid from deep to shallow water and can simulate most of the phenomena of interest in the nearshore zone and harbor basins.

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STWAVE

STWAVE is an easy-to-apply, flexible, and robust model for nearshore wind-wave growth and propagation. The model simulates depth-induced wave refraction and shoaling, current-induced refraction and shoaling, depth- and steepness-induced wave breaking, diffraction, wave growth because of wind input, and wave-wave interaction and white capping that redistribute and dissipate energy in a growing wave field.

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WAM

The WAM interface in SMS contains tools to create and edit WAM simulations. WAM is a third generation global ocean wave prediction model. The model predicts directional spectra as well as wave properties such as significant wave height, mean wave direction and frequency, swell wave height and mean direction, and wind stress fields corrected by including the wave induced stress and the drag coefficient at each grid point at chosen output times.

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PTM

PTM has been developed for application to dredging and coastal projects including dredged material dispersion and fate, sediment pathway and fate, and constituent transport. The model contains algorithms that appropriately represent transport, settling, deposition, mixing, and resuspension processes in nearshore wave/current conditions. It uses waves and currents developed through other models and input directly to PTM as forcing functions.

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