Verification and Validation of the Coastal Modeling System. Report 2: CMS-Wave

Abstract

There are four reports documenting the Verification and Validation (V&V) of the Coastal Modeling System (CMS): an executive summary, waves, circulation, and sediment transport/morphodynamics, respectively. This is the second technical report (Report 2) that describes the wave modeling component of the V&V study. The goal of the report was to critically assess both general and special predictive skills of CMS-Wave, a spectral wave model in the CMS developed to address a variety of needs for coastal inlet applications. For model verification, a number of simple and idealized cases were selected to approve the basic physics and computational algorithms implemented in CMS-Wave. For model validation, a collection of more complicated cases with either laboratory or field data representing real world problems were assembled to confirm the overall performance or special capabilities of CMS-Wave. Provided in this report are descriptions of the V&V cases, model set up and boundary conditions specified in each case, and assessment of model performance. Major findings for each case are provided as guidance to users for future applications of CMS-Wave.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA553628

Entities

People

  • James Rosati Iii
  • Lihwa Lin
  • Rob Thomas
  • Zeki Demirbilek

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Boundaries
  • California
  • Climate Change
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Energy Transfer
  • Measurement
  • Research Facilities
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Sedimentation
  • Storm Surges
  • Two Dimensional
  • Underwater Acoustics
  • Wave Propagation

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Personnel Management and Statistics in the Military and Department of Defense