**3. Numerical Experiments**

The primary aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between the headland-bay static equilibrium profile and wave propagation characteristics; to do so, numerical modelling of a single headland case study has been implemented. Moreover, the possible influence of wave direction and wave period has been verified on this researched correlation. Several experiments have been carried out using the wave driver BW of MIKE 21 (Danish Hydraulic Institute) [21], which is based on the numerical solution of the time domain formulations of Boussinesq-type equations [30–33]. The BW module is able to reproduce the combined effects of all important wave phenomena, among them diffraction and refraction, which play an important role in headland-bay equilibrium profile shaping.
