Questions on wave boundary forcing

CyprienBosserelle / xbeach_gpu

Lightweight version of XBeach that uses CUDA C to run on the GPU. The code is used to simulate coastal waves, currents, sediment transport and beach morphology changes during extreme events. Visit:

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Questions on wave boundary forcing #63

Open tc-ecoast opened 8 months ago

tc-ecoast commented 8 months ago

Hi all,

Does XBGPU support spatially varying wave forcing? It doesn't appear so but I wanted to double check. For example the XBeach format is to specify a 'loclist.txt' file that contains the names of multiple input spectrum files.

Is wavebndtype=5 implemented/tested within the model? And what type of file format would be input? I tried a SWAN spectrum text file which didn't work.

Thanks, Ted

CyprienBosserelle commented 7 months ago

Kia ora Ted, You are right we don't support variable wave energy on that boundary. About the type 5 boundary. I didn't spend a lot of time making the Swan boundary very robust. did you get an error message? Otherwise if you could make a simple example I could try to debug the issue. Cyp