CONTENTS 



Page 



PREFACE 1 



PART I : INTRODUCTION 4 



PART II: REGIONAL COASTAL PROCESSES WAVE PROPAGATION MODEL (RCPWAVE) 6 



Background Information 6 



Wave Transformation Outside the Surf Zone 9 



Wave Transformation Inside the Surf Zone 18 



PART III : MODEL VERIFICATION 27 



General Comments 27 



Elliptical Shoal Case: Comparison With Laboratory Data 27 



CERC's FRF Cases: Comparisons with Prototype Data 29 



Verification of the Wave Breaking Scheme: Comparisons with 



Laboratory Data 32 



PART IV: MODEL EXECUTION ON THE CONTROL DATA CORPORATION 



COMPUTING SYSTEM 36 



General Comments 36 



CYBER 865 Job Control Language 37 



Submitting the CYBER 865 Batch Job 37 



CYBER 205 Job Control Language 40 



Submitting the CYBER 205 Batch Job 43 



Input Files 45 



Output Files 51 



PART V : MODEL APPLICATIONS 53 



General Comments 53 



Example I : FRF Pier, Duck, North Carolina 54 



Example 1 1 : Homer Spit , Alaska 56 



Cost Comparisons 57 



PART VI : GRID INTERPOLATION PROGRAM ( INTPRCP) 59 



General Comments 59 



Executing INTPRCP on the CDC Computing System 59 



Input and Output Files 62 



Grid Interpolation Example 65 



PART VII : CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 67 



REFERENCES 69 



APPENDIX A: VERIFICATION OF MODEL RESULTS USING THE ELLIPTICAL SHOAL 



LABORATORY TEST DATA A 1 



APPENDIX B: VERIFICATION OF MODEL RESULTS USING FIELD RESEARCH 



FACILITY (FRF) PROTOTYPE DATA B1 



APPENDIX C: VERIFICATION OF MODEL RESULTS USING BREAKING WAVE 



DATA COLLECTED IN LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS C1 



APPENDIX D: LINE-BY-LINE DESCRIPTION OF JOB CONTROL LANGUAGE FOR 



EXECUTING RCPWAVE ON THE CYBER 865 COMPUTER D1 



