Mathematical models for riverine, estuarine and coastal geomorphology

3 Credits

Focuses on describing and understanding morphodynamic models used for studying and predicting the evolution of rivers, estuaries, and coasts. The students will learn the basics of numerical discretization and how to code a 1D numerical model in Fortran. Students will also learn how to compute morphodynamic evolution with a popular model named Delft3D. Follows an approach by which we will start from the 3D equations for morphodynamic evolution and then simplify them into 2D and 1D models.