Finding Dangerous Waves-Review of Methods to Obtain Wave Impact Design Loads for Marine Structures

Green water and slamming wave impacts can lead to severe damage or operability issues for marine structures. It is therefore essential to consider their probability and loads in design. This is difficult, as impacts are both hydrodynamically complex and relatively rare. The complexity requires high-fidelity modeling (experiments or CFD),...

Spectral Wave Dissipation by Vegetation: A new frequency distributed dissipation model in SWAN

Climate change puts under pressure existing and future coastal interventions. Growing threats like sea-level rise and intensity of storms require solutions to be adaptable and resilient. Nature-based solutions have shown to tackle these challenges while providing social, environmental, and economic benefits. The role of vegetation in coastal...

Modelling refraction of waves over tidal channels: A numerical study focusing on the performance of spectral wave models with respect to bottom refraction

For the design of coastal structures, the hydraulic loads that act on the coast should be known. These are often based on extrapolation of measurements. However, if the physical relation is unknown, large errors could be made. Therefore, a numerical model can be set up to take the most important processes into account.Yet, uncertainties are...

Wave Energy Resource Assessment for Exploitation—A Review

Over recent decades, the exploitation of wave energy resources has sparked a wide range of technologies dedicated to capturing the available power with maximum efficiency, reduced costs, and minimum environmental impacts. These different objectives are fundamental to guarantee the development of the marine wave energy sector, but require also...

Alternative Source Terms for SWAN in the Coastal Region

This paper presents the application of new source terms in SWAN for the dominant water wave physics in the coastal zone: depth-induced breaking and triad wave-wave interactions. We present results demonstrating increased modelling skill in the prediction of bulk wave parameters e.g. significant wave height and of the spectral shape compared to...

Sensitivity analysis of numerical aspects of SWAN: Geographical and spectral grid resolution and convergence behaviour

Impact of short-term bed level changes on wave characteristics at the Frisian dikes

Evaluation and development of wave-current interaction in SWAN: Activity 6.4 of SBW project Waddenzee

Storm hindcasts for Wadden Sea: Hindcasts in inlet systems of Ameland and Norderney and Lunenburg Bay

Sensitivity analysis of SWAN for the Amelander Zeegat

Reducing the computational time of SWAN by dynamic deactivation of grid points: Activity 3.1 of SBW-RVW Waddenzee

Calibration tool for SWAN - detailed specification instrument: Activity 8.3 of SBW project Waddenzee

Sensitivity analysis of numerical aspects of SWAN: Activity 3.1 of SBW project Waddensea

Calibration tool for SWAN: Activity 8.2 of SBW project Waddenzee, part 2 : selection of appropriate calibration techniques

Validation instrument for SWAN: Selection and assessment of data sets fpr validation of SWAN for the Wadden Sea

Calibration tool for SWAN: Activity 8.1 and 8.2 of SBW project Waddenzee - Part 1: analysis of requirements

Spectral modelling of wind waves in coastal areas