VALIDATION OF UNSTRUCTURED WAVEWATCH III FOR NEARSHORE WAVES
ICCE 2018 Cover Image
PDF

Supplementary Files

Conference Presentation File

How to Cite

Smith, J. M., Hesser, T., Roland, A., & Bryant, M. (2018). VALIDATION OF UNSTRUCTURED WAVEWATCH III FOR NEARSHORE WAVES. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1(36), waves.55. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v36.waves.55

Abstract

Unstructured wave model grids in the nearshore coastal region provide flexibility and efficiency to resolve complex shorelines and high-gradient wave zones to drive nearshore circulation, wave setup and wave-driven sediment transport. Recent improvements to the unstructured version of WAVEWATCH III (WW3) (WW3DG 2016) to support nearshore application include an implicit solution scheme and domain decomposition for multi-scale spatial coverage over approximately three orders of magnitude. The hybrid approach to parallelization involves spectral partitioning for advection in geographical space and domain decomposition for spectral advection and the source term integration. The advection part of wave action equation is integrated fully implicitly, and a new convergent action limiter derived from Komen et al. (1994) and Hersbach and Janssen (1999) is applied. New Block-Jacobi and Block-Gauss-Seidel solvers are applied with improved convergence. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the upgraded unstructured WW3 for nearshore application.
https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v36.waves.55
PDF

References

Komen et al. (1994): Dynamics and Modelling of Ocean Waves, Cambridge Univ. Press, 532pp.

Hersbach and Janssen (1999): Improvement of the short-fecth behavior in WAM, JTECH, AMS, vol. 16, pp. 884-892.

WW3 Development Group (2016). User manual and system documentation of WW3 v. 5.16, NOAA http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/wavewatch/manual.v5.16.pdf

Authors retain copyright and grant the Proceedings right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this Proceedings.