GenCade Input Files

After saving the GenCade project, several files will be created in the user specified folder. These files include *.gen, *.shi, *.shr, and *.wave. For example, if the name of the project is test, the input files would be named test.gen, test.shi, test.shr, and test_wave1.wave.

The *.gen file is the control file. The first section of this file lists information about the other input and output files. The first line under files shows the path for the location of the initial shoreline. If the case has a regional contour, the next line will list the location for the regional contour. The next line specifies the number of wave gages included for the simulation while the next lines list the cell of the wave gage, the depth, number of time steps for the wave information, and the path for each wave gage. The next section of the *.gen file is the model setup. This section includes the grid origin and orientation, the simulation start and end date, the time step, the longshore sand transport coefficients (K1 and K2), and the number of cells in the offshore contour smoothing window (ISMOOTH).