• Corpus ID: 135469498

COASTAL DESIGN SUPPORT ( CODES ) FRAMEWORK : A FIRST APPLICATION FOR PORT DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION

@inproceedings{Boer2016COASTALDS,
  title={COASTAL DESIGN SUPPORT ( CODES ) FRAMEWORK : A FIRST APPLICATION FOR PORT DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION},
  author={Wiebe P. de Boer and Freek Scheel and Bart-Jan van der Spek and M.H.P. Jansen and Ronald Stive and Arjen P. Luijendijk},
  year={2016}
}

• W. D. Boer, F. Scheel, +3 authors A. Luijendijk
• Published 2016
• Computer Science

To accommodate for the transport of goods and commodities worldwide, new seaports are being developed and existing ports are being extended and optimized. Increasing urbanization of coastal areas and rising awareness for the value of our ecosystems ask for solutions that align port infrastructure with the requirements from society and nature. Hence, design and optimization of both new and existing ports become more and more a multidisciplinary effort requiring an assessment of multiple design aspects at the same time. The Coastal Design Support (CoDeS) tools framework is developed with the aim of bringing together tools that support the design and optimization of coastal infrastructure on multiple physical design aspects in a multidisciplinary setting. These tools aim primarily on obtaining quick insights in physical (design) parameters in the preliminary design stages of coastal infrastructure, when time and budget is often limited and the design freedom is still relatively large. The framework is developed with strong focus on usability, interactivity and visualisation. Different tool engines therefore typically run in the order of milliseconds to seconds. At this stage, the CoDeS software consists primarily of tools to assess the impacts of port design and optimization, such as wave penetration in a port, velocity fields around the port mouth and breakwater design. This paper discusses the setup of the CoDeS framework, an application to the Port of Scheveningen and opportunities for future developments of the framework and its use in practice. The study shows that the tools can be very valuable for a comparative analysis of different port designs on multiple aspects to arrive at promising design solutions. Furthermore, the tools can be useful to test the sensitivity of the design for uncertainties in the environmental conditions and design parameters and to communicate insights with stakeholders, because of their speed and interactivity. The scripting facility of the framework allows its end-user community, mostly engineers, to easily improve and extend the system with existing tools. This close collaboration with the engineering community ensures that the capabilities of the framework are adequately improved and extended further, beyond port applications. However, because of the simplified nature of the tools in terms of representation of the physical processes, their applicability may be limited for complex cases, requiring detailed numerical model assessments. Nevertheless, this framework and software tools can significantly aid the first step towards an integrated design of coastal infrastructure.