Software

The Coastal Engineering Research Group (CERG) has expertise in many leading software packages in its work. It also develops its own software for a number of tasks. Details of packages currently in use are shown below. If you want to know more about a particular package, please contact the listed worker


Package: VLUGR2

Vectorized Local Uniform Grid Refinement: Adaptive grid solver for PDEs in 2D

Contact: Vanessa Magar
For further information see: Magar, V. & Pedley, T.J., Journal of Fluid Mechanics(2005), vol 539, pp93-112
Additional info: Joke Gollum's webpage: homepages.cwi.nl/~gollum/VLUGR2.html

Package: Particle-tracking model

Particle tracking of sediment particles above rippled beds under oscillatory flows

Contact: Vanessa Magar
For further information see: Magar, V., Davies, A. G. & Malarkey, J.
Additional info: Developed by V. Magar. To be used with a phase-ensembled velocity field from a hydrodynamic model.

Package: 2DV breaking wave solver

This is a two-dimensional numerical model which solves Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations for mean flows.

Contact: Dominic Reeve
For further information see: Lin, P., Liu, P.L.-F., A Numerical study of breaking waves in the surf zone, Journal of Fluid Mechanics(1998), vol 359, pp239-264
 

Package: COSMOS

Numerical model for coastal morphology

Contact: Ying Li
For further information see: Southgate, H., A Nearshore Profile Model of Wave and Tidal Current Interaction(1989), Coastal Engineering, vol 13, pp219-245
 

Package: AMODWT

Conduct the adapted maximal overlap discrete wavelet transform

Contact: Ying Li
 

Package: BOOTSTRAP

Analyse the probability distribution of extreme values and calculate the confidence of the return values with bootstrap resampling

Contact: Dominic Reeve
 

Package: MIBUP

Simulating the wave field and currents around the surface-piercing impermeable breakwaters.

Contact: Baoxing Wang
 

Package: JOINSEA

Joint probability analysis

Contact: Dominic Reeve
Additional info:Developed by HR Wallingford.

Package: EBAYSHAPE

Calculates Equilibrium Bayshape for one or two headlands

Contact: Dominic Reeve
For further information see: To be added
 

Package: COSMOS-2D

Beach profile evolution model

Contact: Dominic Reeve
For further information see: To be added
Additional info: Developed by HR Wallingford

Package: GROYNE

Evaluation of analytical solution of 1-line equation

Contact: Dominic Reeve
For further information see: Reeve, D. E., 'Explicit expression of beach response to nonstationary forcing near a groyne', ASCE J Wtrwy, Port, Harb, Coastl. & Oc. Engrg, 2006.
 

Package: SHORECIRC

SHORECIRC is a quasi-3D circulation model. The time-averaged and depth-integrated equations are applied for the general form of non-uniform currents over depth.

Contact:
For further information see: Svendsen, Ib A., Haas, K., & Zhao, Q. (Version 2.0) Quasi-3D nearshore circulation model SHORECIRC. Center for Applied Coastal Research, University of Delaware.
Additional info: http://chinacat.coastal.udel.edu/programs/shorecirc/shorecirc.html

Package: SCREEN

Generates realisations of Gaussian distributed stochastic variables with specified autocorrelation

Contact: Dominic Reeve
 

Package: DAWN

Depth-averaged tidal flow model

Contact: Jose Horrillo-Caraballo
For further information see: To be added
Additional info: Developed by Halcrow. 

Package: WAFO

Matlab Toolbox for Wave Analysis for Fatigue and Oceanography

Contact: John Lawrence
Additional info: http://www.maths.lth.se/matstat/wafo/

 

LIBRARY

There is also a software library for staff and students of the CERG. This is found here. ( login required )