Verification and Validation of the Coastal Modeling System. Report 4. CMS-Flow: Sediment Transport and Morphology Change

Abstract

This is the fourth report in the series of four reports, toward the Verification and Validation (V&V) of the Coastal Modeling System (CMS). This report contains details of a V&V study conducted to assess skills of the CMS sediment transport and morphology change for a wide range of problems encountered in coastal applications. The emphasis is on coastal inlets, navigation channels, and adjacent beaches. This evaluation study began by considering simple idealized test cases for checking basic physics and computational algorithms implemented in the model. After these initial fundamental tests, the model was evaluated with several laboratory and field test cases. This report provides description of each test case, model setup, boundary conditions used in different numerical simulations, and assessment of modeling results. The report also includes major findings and guidance for users on how to setup and calibrate the model for practical applications of CMS.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA553630

Entities

People

  • Alejandro Sánchez
  • Honghai Li
  • Julie Dean Rosati
  • Mitchell Brown
  • Tanya M. Beck
  • Weiming Wu
  • Zeki Demirbilek

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boltzmann Equation
  • Boundaries
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Computational Science
  • Diffusion Coefficient
  • Engineering
  • Field Tests
  • Flood Barriers
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Navigation
  • Sedimentation
  • Sediments
  • Simulations
  • Statistics
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Aquatic Ecology
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation