海岸工程是对近岸环境中的物理和形态过程以及海岸地区建设的研究。沿海工程学涵盖近海海洋学，海洋地质学和沉积物运输以及岩土工程和结构工程。石溪大学的海岸工程研究涵盖了一系列基础和应用主题，包括理论和应用流体动力学，重点是沿海水动力，泥沙输运，海滩和沙丘的形态演变，波浪力学，水动力不稳定性和海床机械师。尽管强烈致力于基础研究，但研究是受环境流量应用和工程感兴趣的问题的推动，并受到实验和观察的指导。海岸工程的具体研究主题包括波浪结构相互作用，海岸洪水建模和开发弹性海岸防护技术。正在进行的研究旨在开发基于过程的数值
Coastal engineering is the study of the physical and morphological processes in the near-shore environment and construction in coastal areas. The science of coastal engineering encompasses near-shore oceanography, marine geology and sediment transport, as well as geotechnical and structural engineering. Research in coastal engineering at Stony Brook University covers a borad range of both fundamental and applied topics, including theoretical and applied fluid dynamics, with emphases on coastal hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphological evolution of beaches and dunes, wave mechanics, hydrodynamic instabilities, and seabed mechanics. Though strongly focused on basic research, research is motivated by applications in environmental flows and problems of engineering interest, and guided by experiments and observations. Specific research topics in coastal engineering include wave-structure interaction, coastal flooding modeling and developing resilient coastal protection techniques. On-going research aims at developing process-based numerical models to study beach, dune and bluff erosion mechanisms and coastal structure behaviors under combined water level and wave conditions, and the hydrodynamics and morphology of lakes. Additional research areas include wave over arbitrary periodic topographies and Bragg resonances, Terrain-following boundary layer flows and bed-form induced circulations, Wave-current-sediment morphology interactions, nearshore dynamics and tidal inlets, Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in vegetated wetlands, Wave-structure interactions and ocean renewable energy, Lagrangian ocean data assimilation, Rectification and symmetry-breaking in oscillatory flows, peristaltic transport and pumping. Interests in Applied Mathematics include: conformal mapping, Floquet theory, multi-scale perturbation techniques and homogenization.