Accession Number:

ADA576160

Title:

GenCade Version 1 Model Theory and User's Guide

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER VICKSBURG MS COASTAL INLETS RESEARCH PROGRAM

Personal Author(s):

• Frey, Ashley E.
• Connell, Kenneth J.
• Hanson, Hans
• Larson, Magnus
• Thomas, Robert C.
• Munger, Sophie
• Zundel, Alan

Report Date:

2012-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

187.0

Abstract:

This is the first report to describe the new shoreline change and sand transport model, GenCade. GenCade is based on the synthesis of GENESIS Hanson and Kraus 1989, a project-scale, engineering design-level model, and Cascade Larson et al. 2003, a regional-scale, planning-level model. This report describes GenCade model theory, model validation and benchmark cases. The first model validation was performed with data from an experiment conducted in the CHL Large-Scale Sediment Transport Facility while the second focuses on the Jucar River in Spain. A series of simple idealized cases was developed to demonstrate GenCade model capabilities and verify results against the established legacy model, GENESIS. Additionally, this report includes a user s guide that describes the process of setting up and running GenCade. This section should include enough detail for a user with no previous GenCade experience to run a simple GenCade case. The report also describes a GenCade model application on the south shore of Long Island, New York. This report should give a new user enough information to understand the theory behind the model and create a grid and run a GenCade simulation.

Descriptors:

• *COASTAL REGIONS
• *SEDIMENT TRANSPORT
• BEACHES
• BREAKWATERS
• INLETS(WATERWAYS)
• NUMERICAL METHODS AND PROCEDURES
• RIVERS
• SAND
• SHORES
• SURFACE WATERS
• USER MANUALS
• VALIDATION
• WAVES

Subject Categories:

• Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
• Hydrology, Limnology and Potamology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE