SIMULTANEOUS EFFECTS OF WAVE AND TIDE ON THE COSATAL CURRENTS ALONG HORMOZGAN PROVINCE COASTLINES (CASE STUDY: PARSIAN AREA)

Coastal currents are one of the important hydrodynamic factors in the near shore zone which play a key role in sediment transport as well as in pollution dispersion. Thus,accurate and precise predictions of coastal currents in the near shore area are quite important which provides valuable data for engineering projects and coastalmanagement purposes. This paper investigates the simultaneous effects of wave and tide on the current pattern in the near shore zone along Hormozgan province coastlines in the Persian Gulf. Accordingly, two different numerical modeling scenarios have been considered to study the current patterns in the near shore area; tide only condition and tide and wave combination condition. In this paper the results of the numerical modeling have only been presented for Parsian region at the end of the western part of Hormozgan province. This work has been done as a part of Hormozgan Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) project and the results have been used for shoreline management plan (SMP) studies. In this study, the coastal currents simulation has been performed using Hydrodynamic (HD) and Spectral Waves(SW) modules of MIKE 21/3 Coupled Model FM.