Print Email Facebook Twitter Effect of bed roughness on tsunami bore propagation and overtopping Title Effect of bed roughness on tsunami bore propagation and overtopping Author Esteban, Miguel (Waseda University) Roubos, Jochem Jan (Student TU Delft) Iimura, Kotaro (Waseda University) Salet, Jorrit Thomas (Student TU Delft) Hofland, B. (TU Delft Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk) Bricker, J.D. (TU Delft Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk) Ishii, Hidenori (Waseda University) Hamano, Go (Waseda University) Takabatake, Tomoyuki (Waseda University) Shibayama, Tomoya (Waseda University) Date 2020 Abstract The accurate modelling of overtopping of coastal defences by tsunami waves is of vital importance for the formulation of disaster management strategies. To improve knowledge of this phenomena the authors conducted experiments on coastal structure overtopping using bores that were generated by a dam-break mechanism. Three types of structures were tested, namely a coastal dyke, a wall, and a wall of infinite height. The results highlight the necessity to consider the energy present in a bore to determine if a structure will be overtopped or not. As a result of these experiments an empirical formula to determine the height of overtopping given the incident bore height and velocity was validated. The study highlights the importance of clearly modelling the velocity and Froude number of a tsunami. Such experiments should be conducted on rough beds, for which a suitable Manning's n seems to be around 0.06 sm-1/3. The study also contrasted the results obtained to those of the ASCE7 method, and concludes that the Manning's n values recommended in ASCE7 are probably too low. Subject Dam breakDykesEvacuationTsunami overtopping To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0e9c57c6-3fb8-43b3-9e78-54e4cf251ec1 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2019.103539 Embargo date 2022-04-22 ISSN 0378-3839 Source Coastal Engineering, 157 Bibliographical note Accepted Author Manuscript Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2020 Miguel Esteban, Jochem Jan Roubos, Kotaro Iimura, Jorrit Thomas Salet, B. Hofland, J.D. Bricker, Hidenori Ishii, Go Hamano, Tomoyuki Takabatake, Tomoya Shibayama Files PDF 2019_Esteban_et_al_roughn ... buttal.pdf 3.71 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0e9c57c6-3fb8-43b3-9e78-54e4cf251ec1/datastream/OBJ/view