Interaction of waves and currents /

This report presents an overview of wave-current interacion, including comprehensive review of references to significant U.S. and foreign literature available through December 1981. Specific topics under review are the effects of horizontally and vertically varying currents on waves, wave refraction by currents, dissipation and turbulence, small- and medium-scale currents, caustics and focusing, and wave breaking. The results of the review are then examined for engineering applications. The most appropriate general-purpose computer program to include wave-current interaction is the Dutch Rijkswaterstaat program CREDIZ, which is based on a parabolic wave equation. Further applications include wave and current forces on structures and possibly sediment transport. The report concludes with a brief state-of-the-art review of wave-current interaction and a list of topics needing further research and development.

A user's guide to a steady-state shallow-water directional spectral wave model /

Includes abstract.

A user's guide to SHALWV : numerical model for simulation of shallow-water wave growth, propagation and decay /

Includes abstract.

A numerical model for shoaling and refraction of third-order Stokes waves over an irregular bottom /

"May 1987."

Iterative and Pade solutions for the water-wave dispersion relation /

"April 1985."

Effects of a steady nonuniform current on the characteristics of surface gravity waves /

"December 1974."

Directional spectral wave generator basin response to monochromatic waves /

"This report is a product of the Laboratory Simulation of Spectral and Directional Spectral Waves Work Unit, Coastal Flooding and Storm Protection Program, Civil Works Research and Development, at the US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station's Coastal Engineering Research Center."--Preface.

A method for estimating wind-wave growth and decay in shallow water with high values of bottom friction /

"October 1977."

Estimating nearshore significant wave height for irregular waves /

"October 1979."

Atlantic coast hindcast, shallow-water, significant wave information /

"January 1983."

Effects of currents on waves /

"October 1981."

Wave-height prediction for wave generators in shallow water /

"March 1964."

Nonrandom behavior in field wave spectra and its effect on grouping of high waves /

"August 1982."

Effects of a breakwater on nearshore currents due to breaking waves /

"November 1975."

Stilling well design for accurate water level measurement /

"January 1977."