CIEG 682 Syllabus
CIEG 682 Nearshore Hydrodynamics (3 credits)
Spring 2009
Class: MW 1000-1130, Colburn Lab 109
Instructor: Jim Kirby
Ocean Engineering Laboratory 201
831-2438
kirby@udel.edu
Required Text: Svendsen, I. A., Introduction to Nearshore Hydrodynamics, World Scientific.
Classroom discussions will be based on additional journal papers. In order to download the
additional papers, you must register as a current member of the class.
Please go to the User Registration Page in
order to register. You may then go here to access the
textbook.
Course Outline (tentative, since this is first time for me teaching it)
- Waves, currents, wave-averaging - basic concepts.
- Wave-averaged equations for mean flows:
- radiation stress formulations
- vortex force formulations
- Wave breaking - phenomenological models.
- Cross-shore momentum balance - setup, undertow.
- Long-shore momentum balance - longshore current.
- 2D horizontal flows - rip currents, beach cusp circulation.
- Instability of the longshore current - shear waves.
- The modern modeling environment - 2-D, quasi-3d, and 3D modeling approaches.
- Sediment transport and the morphology problem.
Grading:
The semester grade will be based on two elements:
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kirby@udel.edu
February 18, 2009