Capabilities

As a nearshore shallow-to-intermediate water phase-resolving Boussinesq-type numerical wave model, FUNWAVE can resolve many coastal processes such as:

Exclusive to phase-resolving

Coastal processes highlighted in bold indicate process-based capabilities that are not naturally resolved in phase-averaging wave models. These features are exclusive to phase-resolving wave models.

• Nearshore wave propagation & transformation

• Refraction, diffraction, reflection & nonlinear shoaling

• Wave-induced nearshore circulation

• Nonlinear wave–wave & wave–current interactions

• Wave breaking with runup & overtopping

• Partially absorbing/reflecting inner boundaries

• Harbor resonance & Infragravity (IG) waves

• Vessel–generated waves & related sediment transport with morphology change

• Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) module for refined moving and two–wave coupled grids