Computation of wind-wave spectra in coastal waters with SWAN on unstructured grids

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 267-277

  Zijlema, M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Finite difference; Fully implicit; SWAN; Unstructured grid; Wind wave spectra

Indexed keywords

AREAS OF INTERESTS; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; COASTAL WATERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FULLY IMPLICIT; GAUSS-SEIDEL ITERATION METHOD; HIGH VARIABILITY; LOCAL MESH REFINEMENT; MULTI-DIRECTIONAL; NUMERICAL ACCURACY; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; SHALLOW AREAS; TIME STEP; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES; WAVE SPECTRA;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; COASTAL WATER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW WATER; SHORELINE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WIND WAVE;

EID: 74449087667     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2009.10.011     Document Type: Article

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