The coastal zone is the area where the action of waves and wave-driven-currents on the seabed is very intense, and where the bed level and sediment are almost always in motion. If the mainly seasonal climate changes, the wind and wave conditions will also change. A new waves and wave-driven-currents conditions will change the rate of sediment transport and the beach topography. Natural beaches are significant characterized by an annual cycle of seasonal erosion and accretion. In other words, natural beaches are generally in dynamic equilibrium from the balance of sediment transport budge for specific area on the beach. We can utilize the conservation law of sediment transport to describe the coastal morphodynamic evolution. It is the same way to predict beach evolution due to changes in wave conditions or caused by coastal structures. Therefore, we can utilize numerical models to predict the change of bottom topography from the spatial distribution of the alongshore and offshore sediment transport rates in real coastal area. Coastal morphological models are indispensable and powerful tools that allow harbour and hydraulic engineers to predict nearshore topography, to analyze the impact of coastal structures, and to verify the planning and design of harbours and coastal defences. Morphological models are based on various sub-models for waves, tidal currents, nearshore currents, and sediment transport, coupled with the sediment transport model. The sediment transport model solves the sediment conservation equation to calculate bed-level evolution. The local sediment transport is first calculated by wave and current sub-models, and the bed form evolution is then computed based on the conservation of sediment and its continual redistribution in time. The aim of this chapter is to describe the theories, techniques, applications and robust algorithms for computing bed level change which is flexible enough to handle the nonlinearity present in the sediment conservation equations describing bed evolution in a complex coastal area. Classification of prediction methods for morphological evolutionThe changes of coastal topography were the complex and irreversible morphodynamic processes, influenced by local bathymetry, weather, wave, tide, and coastal structures, etc. The technology of prediction morphological evolution caused by coastal structures or varied with monsoon, typhoon, and climate changes, etc. is needed. In order to predict morphological evolutions, the experience analysis with many survey data in similar cases and the results of hydraulic model tests are considered in the past.
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