Hydrodynamic Models for Estuarine and Coastal Waters

3 Credits

Focuses on describing hydrodynamic models that analyze and predict estuarine and coastal processes. Students will learn how to derive the 3D Navier-Stokes equations and to simplify them into 2D and 1D shallow-water equations for steady and unsteady conditions. Students will learn basics of numerical discretization techniques and apply these concepts by coding from scratch a 1D numerical model in Fortran. Students will learn to create a 2D model of an estuary using the software Delf3D.