Beach-fx

As part of its civil works mission, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is responsible for the design, construction, and maintenance of federally-authorized shore protection projects. To solve the complex problem of modeling and measuring the costs and benefits of protecting existing infrastructure against erosion, inundation, and wave attack damages, researchers at the USACE ERDC Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory and the Institute for Water Resources developed Beach-fx.

Beach-fx is a comprehensive  analytical framework to evaluate the physical performance and economic benefits and costs of shore protection projects. The Beach-fx modeling software, which runs on desktop computers, employs an event-based Monte Carlo life cycle simulation.