Modeling hurricane waves and storm surge using integrally-coupled, scalable computations

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-65

  Dietrich, J C ^a   Zijlema, M ^b   Westerink, J J ^a   Holthuijsen, L H ^b   Dawson, C ^c   Luettich, R A ^d   Jensen, R E ^e   Smith, J M ^e   Stelling, G S ^b   Stone, G W ^f  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^e US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^f LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ADCIRC; Hurricanes; Storm surge; SWAN; Waves

Indexed keywords

ADCIRC; COMPUTATIONAL CORE; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITIONS; KATRINA; MODEL COMPONENTS; NESTED MESHES; PARALLEL COMPUTING; PARALLEL SIMULATIONS; RADIATION STRESS; SHALLOW-WATER; SPECTRAL WAVE MODELS; STORM SURGE; STORM SURGES; SWAN; TIGHTLY-COUPLED; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES; WIND SPEED;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; FLOODS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; STORMS; WATER LEVELS;

HURRICANES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HURRICANE; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; HURRICANE RITA 2005; OCEANIC CURRENT; SHALLOW WATER; STORM SURGE; WATER LEVEL; WAVE MODELING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 78349306721     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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