Print Email Facebook Twitter Energy loss and set-up due to breaking random waves Title Energy loss and set-up due to breaking random waves Author Battjes, J.A. Janssen, J.P.F.M. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 1978-01-01 Abstract A description is given of a model developed for the prediction of the dissipation of energy in random waves breaking on a beach. The dissipation rate per breaking wave is estimated from that in a bore of corresponding height, while the probability of occurrence of breaking waves is estimated on the basis of a wave height distribution with an upper cut-off which in shallow water is determined mainly by the local depth. A comparison with measurements of wave height decay and set-up, on a plane beach and on a beach with a bar-trough profile, indicates that the model is capable of predicting qualitatively and quantitatively all the main features of the data. Subject wave breakingenergy dissipationrandom waves To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2fba43fe-f8bd-42ac-85ee-848312d2e27e Publisher ASCE ISSN 2156-1028 Source Proceedings of 16th Conference on Coastal Engineering, Hamburg, Germany, 1978 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 1978 Battjes, J.A.Janssen, J.P.F.M. Files PDF BattjesJanssen.pdf 217.87 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:2fba43fe-f8bd-42ac-85ee-848312d2e27e/datastream/OBJ/view