General

SWAN is one single computer program. The names of the files provided by the user should comply with the rules of file identification of the computer system on which SWAN is run. In addition: SWAN does not permit file names longer than 36 characters. Moreover, the maximum length of the lines in the input files for SWAN is 180 positions.


The user should provide SWAN with a number of files (input files) with the following information:

• a file containing the instructions of the user to SWAN (the command file),
• file(s) containing: grid, bottom, current, friction, and wind (if relevant) and
• file(s) containing the wave field at the model boundaries (if relevant).