LITPACK - The DHI Software Package for Littoral Processes and Coastline Kinetics

Design and implementation of effective shoreline management strategies, either locally or regionally, require detailed knowledge of the ongoing physical processes controlling the transport and sedimentation of beach materials. LITPACK applies a unique deterministic approach to give you a very powerful tool for a wide range of coastal zone management applications.

LITPACK combines a technically very strong deterministic sediment transport model with user-friendly facilities for the simulation of a large number of wave/current scenarios and for the combination of these simulations into predictions of the net littoral drift, developments of coastal profiles, and long-term coastline evolution.

LITPACK is a MIKE Zero based product and requires the PP Module. LITPACK consists of the following modules:

Main modules:

LITSTP the deterministic sediment transport model for non-cohesive sediment in waves and current

LITDRIFT the littoral sediment module for littoral drift along a uniform coastline with an arbitrary coastal profile

Add-on modules:

LITLINE the coastline evolution model for coastline development due to changes in transport capacity

LITTREN the trench sedimentation model for channel back-filling due to non-equilibrium sediment transport mechanism

LITPROF the profile evolution model for profile development due to cross-shore transport

Where the MIKE 21 sediment transport modules operate in the time domain and simulate the sediment transport potential in area with complex bathymetries, LITPACK assumes a long uniform coastline and stationary sediment transport during each simulation. Thus, the two tools supplement each other very well.

LITPACK is fully compatible with MIKE 21. Many of the pre- and post processing facilities are common for the two packages, and transfer of results between the two systems is easy. All LITPACK modules are currently operated through an efficient interactive menu system.

Context sensitive online help is provided. LITPACK includes the possibility of comprehensive run time graphics simplifying model calibration and application. Simulations may be executed interactively, or the user may setup batch execution of one or more simulations.