CAREER: Simulations of Nonlinear Water Waves and Air-to-Sea Momentum Fluxes in the Coastal Ocean

提案编号： CTS-0547056主要制造商：QIN CHEN机构： 南阿拉巴马大学模拟非线性水波和空气到海洋的动量通量在沿海这个项目的目标是开发一个综合的研究和教育计划，在沿海工程和科学，将提高模拟风暴潮和波浪动力学的能力，并在同一时间教育学生和公众对海湾地区的沿海问题。 根据人口普查数据，超过50%的美国人口居住在海岸线50英里以内，沿海人口还在继续增长。 由于人类活动的增加和气候变化，美国的近海岸地区面临着严重的压力。沿海地区的持续流行和沿海沿着开发的增加使更多的人和财产面临飓风和海啸等沿海灾害的风险。风、浪和波浪是海岸洪水和侵蚀的主要力量。要减轻这些沿海灾害的影响，就需要准确预测风暴和飓风造成的水涌和海浪，以便向公众和决策者提供信息，促进沿海资源管理和应急反应，并改进沿海基础设施的工程设计。 该计划的研究部分将采用创新的跨学科（土木工程，物理海洋学和计算科学）方法，利用PI在计算流体力学方面的先进沿海波浪建模专业知识。五年研究计划包括理论制定和分析，开发和验证第三代Boussinesq型波流模型，其中包括基于最先进配方和谱元方法的涡度和风强迫，以及利用新模型作为研究工具，以提高对风对波-波相互作用以及空气-用于风暴潮模拟的海洋动量通量。该计划的教育部分将与研究部分相结合，以加强本科教育和研究，并通过新的研究生课程丰富研究生课程。此外，一个新的社区外展计划将与完善的亚拉巴马多芬岛海洋实验室的K-12教育计划相结合。该综合教育计划以高中学生和科学教师为重点，将加强与海洋有关的教育，并吸引美国学生进入海洋科学领域，特别是海岸工程专业。拟议的研究和教育活动将扩大代表性不足的北方墨西哥湾沿岸居民和少数民族对海岸工程学科的参与。多层次的社区外展方案将提高公众对风暴潮和水涌的破坏力及其对沿海居民和基础设施的威胁的认识。这将提高公众对沿海沿着许多住宅发展的潜在风险的认识，从而促进沿海地区的管理。

PROPOSAL NO.: CTS-0547056PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: QIN CHENINSTITUTION: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMACAREER: SIMULATIONS OF NONLINEAR WATER WAVES AND AIR-TO-SEA MOMENTUM FLUXES IN THE COASTAL OCEANThe goal of this project is to develop an integrated research and educational program in coastal engineering and science that will advance the capability of modeling storm surge and wave dynamics, and at the same time educate students and the general public about coastal issues in the Gulf area. According to census data, more than 50% of the U.S. population lives within 50 miles of the shoreline, and the coastal population continues to grow. The nation's near shore regions are severely stressed because of increased human activity and climate change. The continuing popularity of coastal areas and increased development along the coastlines puts more people and property at risk from coastal hazards, such as hurricanes and tsunamis. Winds, surges and waves are the major forcing of coastal flooding and erosion. Mitigating the impacts of such coastal disasters requires an accurate prediction of water surges and ocean waves generated by storms and hurricanes in order to inform the public and decision-makers, facilitate the management of coastal resources and emergency response, and improve engineering design of coastal infrastructure. The research component of this program will employ an innovative, interdisciplinary (civil engineering, physical oceanography and computational science) approach utilizing the PI's advanced coastal wave modeling expertise in computational hydrodynamics. The five-year research plan consists of theoretical formulation and analysis, development and verification of a third-generation Boussinesq-type wave-current model that includes vorticity and wind forcing based on state-of-the-art formulations and spectral-element methods, and the utilization of the new model as a research tool to improve understanding of wind effects on wave-wave interactions as well as air-to-sea momentum fluxes for storm surge modeling. The education component of the program will be coupled with the research component to enhance undergraduate education and research as well as enrich a graduate curriculum with new graduate-level courses. Furthermore, a novel community outreach program will be integrated with the well-established Alabama Dauphin Island Sea Lab's K-12 education programs. The integrated educational program with an emphasis on high-school students and science teachers will enhance ocean-related education and attract U.S. students to the field of ocean science in general and to the profession of coastal engineering in particular. The proposed research and education activities will broaden the participation of the underrepresented Northern Gulf Coast residents and minorities in the discipline of coastal engineering. The multilevel community outreach program will improve the general public's understanding of the destructive forces of storm waves and water surges and their threat to coastal inhabitants and infrastructure. This will raise the public's awareness of the potential risk associated with many residential developments along the coastlines and therefore facilitate coastal zone management.