
Coastal Modeling Group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Facility Overview
The PNNL’s Coastal Modeling Group has strong capabilities in numerical model development and experiences in model applications to a broad research area associated with coastal hydrodynamics, transport processes, marine renewable energy (wave, tidal instream, ocean current and offshore wind energy), coastal resilience under natural hazards, effects of storm surge and anthropogenic disturbances on coastal infrastructure and ecosystems. PNNL’s Coastal Modeling Group has been leading the modeling effort for regional wave resource assessment and characterization for the US coastal waters, and tidal energy modeling assessment at some of the top ranked hotspot sites. Researchers in the modeling group have rich experiences in applying various state-of-the-art coastal ocean and wave models to solve complex coastal problems.
Facility Capabilities
4 Facility Capabilities
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- Extreme Event Identification
- Resource Modeling
- Site Characterization
Contact
Zhaoqing Yang
1100 Dexter Ave N, Seattle, WA
REPORTS
Featured Reports from Facility
- Orbital Marine Power: Environmental Compliance Methodology for Floating Tidal Turbines in High Latitude US Waters
- University of Washington: Assessing cost-effective spatially distributed current measurements from microFloat swarms for tidal energy resource characterization and model validation
- Orbital Marine Power: San Juan Islands Tidal Energy Characterization






















































