Storm Surge Simulation in Transformed Coordinates, Vol. 1


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Excerpt from Storm Surge Simulation in Transformed Coordinates, Vol. 1: Theory and Application Congress, approved 31 July 1945, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 88th Congress, approved 7 November 1963. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.










Storm Surge Simulation in Transformed Coordinates


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This report is published to provide coastal engineers with the results of a study to develop an operational program for numerical simulation of storm surges on a given segment of the Continental Shelf, using a curvilinear coordinate system. The report consists of two volumes. This Volume discusses the theory and application of the transformation procedure for generating the curvilinear shelf coordinate system for particular regions, and the theory, numerical algorithm, and application of the storm surge program for simulation of Hurricanes Carla (1961), Camille (1969), and Gracie (1959). Volume II presents the program documentation and the coded programs for carrying out the coordinate transformation (CONFORM), for establishing the spatial lattice (GRID), and for carrying out the storm surge calculations on the shelf (SSURGE). The work was carried out under the wave mechanics program of the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC).













Storm Surge Simulation in Transformed Coordinates. Volume II. Program Documentation


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A two-dimensional time-dependent numerical storm surge model using orthogonal curvilinear coordinates is presented. The curvilinear coordinate system is based on a conformal mapping of the interior region bounded by the actual coast, the seaward boundary (taken as the 180-meter depth contour) and two parallel lateral boundaries into a rectangle in the image plane. Three regions of the Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico and two regions of the eastern seaboard of the United States are mapped. Since the transformation is conformal, the associated modifications of the vertically integrated equations of motion and mass continuity are minimized. The coast, seaward boundary, and the lateral boundaries of the computing grid are straight lines in the image plane thus facilitating the application of the boundary conditions. The final coordinates allow for the greatest resolution near the coast in a central area of principal storm surge development and modification. The model is employed in the simulation of the storm surge induced by Hurricanes Carla (1961) and Camille (1969) which crossed the gulf coast of the United States and Hurricane Gracie (1959) which crossed the east coast. Analytical interpretations of the wind and atmospheric pressure-forcing functions are used in the computations. (Author).




Technical Report


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