TheDynamicsofCoastalModels

Coastalbasinsaredefinedasestuaries,lagoons,andembayments.Thisbookdealswiththescienceofcoastalbasinsusingsimplemodels,manyofwhicharepresentedineitheranalyticalformorMicrosoftExcelorMATLAB.Thebookintroducessimplehydrodynamicsanditsapplications,fromtheuseofsimpleboxandone-dimensionalmodelstoflowovercoralreefs.Thebookalsoemphasizesmodelsasascientifictoolinourunderstandingofcoasts,andintroducesthevalueofthemostmodernflexiblemeshcombinedwave-currentmodels.Examplesfromshallowbasinsaroundtheworldillustratethewondersofthescientificmethodandthepowerofsimpledynamics.Thisbookisidealforuseasanadvancedtextbookforgraduatestudentsandasanintroductiontothetopicforresearchers,especiallythosefromotherfieldsofscienceneedingabasicunderstandingofthebasicideasofthedynamicsofcoastalbasins.