“…The degree of confidence in these approximations will depend on the accuracy with which the model reproduces the real system. In recent years, this approach has been widely used in studies of barrier schemes in the Bristol Channel (Heaps, 1972;Miles, 1979;Owen and Heaps, 1979), the Bay of Fundy (Garett, 1972;Greenberg, 1979;Duff, 1979), the west coast of Korea (Choi, 1978(Choi, , 1981(Choi, , 2001) and the Isahaya Bay in the Ariake Sea (Chiba and Takemoto, 2003;Kim and Yamashita, 2002;Kyozuka, 2002;Kyozuka et al, 2005;Nadaoka, 2002;Takikawa and Tabuchi, 2002). One of the most difficult and important tasks in this approach is that a sufficiently large region should be considered in the mathematical modeling.…”