Real-time system for obtaining wave characteristics close to the coast of Badalona

This system is the result of the final degree project of Xavier Coromina Bosch of the Degree in Civil Engineering at the UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya). The main objective of the project was to create this system and methodology capable of obtaining results from the waves on a beach quickly and reliably with the buoy data on deep or intermediate waters. In particular, the system has been set up along the coast of Badalona. For this reason, it was necessary to obtain a sufficiently extensive and previously generated wave database from a wave propagation model. Given the conditions of the project, the third generation SWAN model was used to obtain the database that propagates the wave across the domain based on the boundary conditions that are imposed on it. In this way, having and generating this set of data and through a series of interpolation processes, a system capable of obtaining wave values at any point in the domain very quickly was devised, and without the need to create a specific model for each of the cases.