Generation of unstructured meshes using Delaunay triangles for tidal analysis of the port of Acapulco, Mexico

Abstract

The main objective of the research is to suggest the use of unstructured meshes in the SWAN wave model because structured meshes require more adjustments in geographically small areas such as rivers, beaches or even bays. Third-party tools and data such as bathymetry, Meteorological Research Forecast (WRF), WaveWatch III (WWIII) and Simulating Waves Nearshore (SWAN) models were used to carry out the research. The aforementioned software and its own developments were used in Acapulco Bay, Guerrero, Mexico for the elaboration of maps that would serve as input in the generation of Delaunay diagrams, which in turn were fundamental parts in the configuration of the experiments and, with this, perform the analysis on the images of the simulations. With the results obtained, it is expected to confirm the validity of the wave data for the bay; therefore, it is considered a useful tool in the process of analysing the natural phenomena present in the port.