A three-dimensional baroclinic current model with wave effects

Waves can have a significant impact on nearshore currents. A three-dimensional baro-clinic current model including the influence of waves is presented for shallow water areas from Navier-Stokes equations. It has been found that the effects of waves on currents can be expressed in terms of the momentum flux by waves. The model uses non-orthogonal curvilinear coordinates in the horizontal directions and a Sigma coordinate in the vertical direction so that it can be more reasonably applied in estuarine and coastal regions.     

A preliminary study on sea wave packet equations on slowly varying topography

There is a common hypothesis for the presently popular mild-slope equations that wave particle motion is irrotational. In this paper, an attempt is made to abandon the irrotational assumption and to set up new sea wave packet equations on slowly varying topography by use of the WKBJ method. To simplify the deduction, the two-dimensional shallow water equations are used to describe the sea wave particle motion in the very shallow nearshore area. The established equations can give some characteristics of wave propagation near shore.