Long-term Process-based Morphological Modeling of Large Tidal Basins

The study presented in this book is a part of a collective effort to bridge the existing gap of our understanding of morphological behavior of tidal basins between engineering and geological time scales by extending the use of coastal engineering tools (process-based models) to geological time scales. The hypothesis that 'If you put enough of the essential physics into the model, the most important features of the morphological behavior will come out, even at longer time scales' is examined. This study shows that this hypothesis is valid and makes the relation between 'most important features ' and ' the essential physics ' more clear.