How to User CGWAVE with SMS: An Example for Tedious Creek Small Craft Harbor

Abstract

This Coastal and Hydraulics Engineering Technical Note (CHETN) presents an example of how to use the numerical model CGWAVE within the Surface Water Modeling System (SMS) Version 8.0 environment. Updates of SMS are frequent and may result in different control options. This CHETN was completed as part of the Tedious Creek, MD, work unit of the Monitoring Completed Navigation Projects program.The SMS is a comprehensive graphical user interface (GUI) for model conceptualization, mesh generation, statistical interpretation, and visual examination of surface-water model simulation results. The version described herein is SMS Version 8.1. It is the main model delivery system with pre- and post-processor capabilities for all the CHL numerical models including ADCIRC, TABS (RMA2, RMA4, SED2D), ADH, HiVEL, M2D, STWAVE, BOUSS2D, and CGWAVE. These integrated or interconnected models provide circulation and/or wave climate from a range of coastal processes including waves and currents, sediment transport and morphology change, channel infilling and inlet morphology, and dredged material fate. SMS provides the tools and macros for editing and display for mesh development, coordinate conversion, model connectivity, animations, and comparisons.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA458022

Entities

People

  • Barbara P. Donnell
  • Michael J. Briggs
  • Zeki Demirbilek

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

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  • Energy and Power Technologies

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  • Boundaries
  • Breakwaters
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Sets
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Geographic Coordinate Systems
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Grids
  • High Performance Computing
  • Surface Waters
  • User Interface
  • Water
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  • Environmental science

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  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Database Systems and Applications