This second edition of Numerical Modeling of Water Waves describes the technological
revolution that has occurred in numerical modeling of water waves during the last
decade. A CD-ROM with many of the FORTRAN codes of the numerical methods for
solving water wave problems and computer animations of the problems that have been
solved using the codes is included with the book. Several PowerPoint presentations
describing the modeling results are on the CD-ROM. It will be called the NMWW CDROM
in the rest of the book.
The objective of this book is to describe the numerical methods for modeling water
waves that have been developed primarily at the Los Alamos National Laboratory over
the last four decades and to describe some examples of the applications of these methods.
Some of the applications of the numerical modeling methods were performed while the
author was working at the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research at the
University of Hawaii, some as Mader Consulting Co. research projects, and the rest as a
Fellow of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.