Foreword SWAN course
It is the feeling of DHH that the quality of consulting work using the shallow water wave model SWAN can be improved considerably by providing a number of tools to SWAN users; DHH already developed an extension to SWAN to generate graphics directly from the computational software. It also developed the graphical software OPGraph enabling SWAN users to intercompare results of SWAN computations, and to compare SWAN results with observations. A third development was the Graphical User Interface that introduces beginning users to SWAN. The course to which this foreword is an introduction is intended to bridge the gap between knowledge of wave physics in general and the practical use of SWAN. This course does not itself provide the basic general knowledge of waves. For this the reader is referred to one of the following textbooks:
- Holthuijsen, Leo H. (2007),
- Waves in Oceanic and Coastal Waters,
Cambridge University Press,
386 p. - Young, I.R. (1999),
- Wind Generated Ocean Waves, Eds. R.Bhattacharyya and M.E. McCormick,
Ocean Engineering Series, Elsevier, Amsterdam,
288 p.
Most of the illustrations in this course were obtained using Swan-DHH (the Swan version by DHH with graphics extension) and OPGraph. These programs generate Postscript files which were transformed into JPEG format using CorelDraw.
