Nearshore environmental fluid dynamics numerical model

Author: Sun Wenxin
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book systematically introduces the relevant knowledge of designing and using numerical models for nearshore environmental fluid dynamics. It includes fundamental models and complete equation sets of marine fluid dynamics, as well as initial and boundary conditions; numerical methods for discretizing dynamic equations and their differential formats, along with the relationship between formats and physical laws. The book demonstrates special methods for modeling or designing models, ranging from two-dimensional to three-dimensional, from uniform to non-uniform oceans, from fixed to moving shorelines, from regular rectangular grids to unstructured grids, and from forward problems to inverse problems. It emphasizes the characteristics of nearshore astronomical tides and nearshore circulation models, which are crucial for nearshore environments, and also provides a general introduction to transport models directly related to marine environmental dynamics. This book can serve as a reference for graduate and undergraduate students in marine science and environmental science, as well as for scientists and engineers who are beginning to explore marine environmental dynamics.