Abstract: The speech is divided in four parts. In the first part, the history and development of coastal engineering in Turkey will be told. In the second part, the philosophy and approaches of numerical modeling in coastal engineering will be presented. In the third part, the general information of the numerical models such as wave transformation, hydrodynamic and risk models prepared at Gazi University will be given. Finally, UNDA07, a numerical model of wave transformations based on extended mild slope equations, will be explained in details.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Dr. Asu Inan received her B. Sc. in Civil Engineering from Gazi University, Turkey. She then completed her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Coastal Engineering at Gazi University. She worked for eight years as a research assistant in Hydraulic Division of Civil Engineering Department during her graduate education. She had Ph.D. in 2007 and since then, she has been working in Environmental & Technical Research of Accidents Department of Institute of Science & Technology in Gazi University as Assistant Professor. Her works are focused on wave mechanics, mild slope equations and numerical modeling. She has twenty five published papers in several journals and conference proceedings books. She attended to international summer courses as a scholar.