Modeling tide and storm surge in the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia

The primary focus of this thesis involves the numerical simulations of the hydrodynamic flows in the coastal areas of Terengganu, which is subjected to tides and the two seasonal monsoons. For this purpose, we developed two numerical simulation models named TIDE-2D and TUNA-SU, based upon modificati...

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spelling my-umt-ir.-6372016-03-10T07:53:07Z Modeling tide and storm surge in the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia Choon, Loy Kak The primary focus of this thesis involves the numerical simulations of the hydrodynamic flows in the coastal areas of Terengganu, which is subjected to tides and the two seasonal monsoons. For this purpose, we developed two numerical simulation models named TIDE-2D and TUNA-SU, based upon modification and enhancement of existing in-house models TIDE and TUNA-M2 respectively. Both models are governed by the two-dimensional depth-integrated shallow water equations (SWE), which are widely used to simulate similar hydrodynamic regimes. These equations are solved by means of the explicit finite difference method with a staggered grid system, which are restricted in the time step by the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CLF) criterion to ensure numerical stability. The validation of TIDE-2D and TUNA-SU are performed by comparing the model simulation results with known analytical solutions and solutions derived from previously tested software AQUASEA. The tidal dynamics in the coastal areas of Terengganu is satisfactorily simulated by means of TIDE-2D. Similarly TUNA-SU performs satisfactorily to simulate interesting current patterns in South China Sea, which agree with observations during the northeast and southwest monsoons. Finally, two storm surge cases that occurred in Peninsular Malaysia's coastal areas are simulated by means of TUNA-SU. These two storm surges are induced by the Tropical Cyclone Vamei of 2001 and the Extreme Northeast Monsoons of 2004. Institut Oseanografi 2007-04 Thesis en http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/637 http://umt-ir.umt.edu.my:8080/jspui/bitstream/123456789/637/1/GC225%20.C3%202007%20Abstract.pdf 47539ac0d47de0bbfa7153461a88a020 http://umt-ir.umt.edu.my:8080/jspui/bitstream/123456789/637/2/GC225%20.C3%202007.pdf 54d24eacc92846a7c9e7805eb6cad8f2 http://umt-ir.umt.edu.my:8080/jspui/bitstream/123456789/637/3/license.txt 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 http://umt-ir.umt.edu.my:8080/jspui/bitstream/123456789/637/4/GC225%20.C3%202007%20Abstract.pdf.txt 2a1dc8b15ee7d16a41f8b82e68f3e585 http://umt-ir.umt.edu.my:8080/jspui/bitstream/123456789/637/5/GC225%20.C3%202007.pdf.txt 2b8f96f62a1c13c99e744248489ade0e GC 225 .C3 2007 Choon, Loy Kak Modeling tide and storm surge in the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia Storm surges
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GC 225 .C3 2007
Modeling tide and storm surge in the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia
Storm surges
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GC 225 .C3 2007
Modeling tide and storm surge in the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia
Storm surges
Choon, Loy Kak
Modeling tide and storm surge in the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia
description The primary focus of this thesis involves the numerical simulations of the hydrodynamic flows in the coastal areas of Terengganu, which is subjected to tides and the two seasonal monsoons. For this purpose, we developed two numerical simulation models named TIDE-2D and TUNA-SU, based upon modification and enhancement of existing in-house models TIDE and TUNA-M2 respectively. Both models are governed by the two-dimensional depth-integrated shallow water equations (SWE), which are widely used to simulate similar hydrodynamic regimes. These equations are solved by means of the explicit finite difference method with a staggered grid system, which are restricted in the time step by the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CLF) criterion to ensure numerical stability. The validation of TIDE-2D and TUNA-SU are performed by comparing the model simulation results with known analytical solutions and solutions derived from previously tested software AQUASEA. The tidal dynamics in the coastal areas of Terengganu is satisfactorily simulated by means of TIDE-2D. Similarly TUNA-SU performs satisfactorily to simulate interesting current patterns in South China Sea, which agree with observations during the northeast and southwest monsoons. Finally, two storm surge cases that occurred in Peninsular Malaysia's coastal areas are simulated by means of TUNA-SU. These two storm surges are induced by the Tropical Cyclone Vamei of 2001 and the Extreme Northeast Monsoons of 2004.
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title_short Modeling tide and storm surge in the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia
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