Print Email Facebook Twitter Numerical modelling of hydrodynamics of permeable pile groins using SWASH Title Numerical modelling of hydrodynamics of permeable pile groins using SWASH Author Zhang, R. (TU Delft Coastal Engineering) Stive, M.J.F. (TU Delft Coastal Engineering) Date 2019 Abstract This paper focuses on a specific form of groins, Permeable Pile Groins (PPGs), consisting of a single or double rows of wooden piles. With only few experiments and simulations available to study the hydraulic functioning of PPGs, the correlation between the effectiveness and the characteristics of the groin system has yet to be fully understood. This paper presents the application of SWASH, a non-hydrostatic wave-flow model to simulate flow fields affected by PPGs. The SWASH model was calibrated to correctly reproduce longshore current fields in the laboratory. Then, introducing PPGs in the model, the simulation results are compared with available experimental measurements to investigate current-PPG interaction. The simulation results, which generally agree well with the measurements, show that PPGs hardly attenuate wave energy but considerably retard longshore currents within the groin fields. Rip currents are predicted to develop at both flank sides of each pile groin, due to local positive water level gradients toward the pile groins. Subject Longshore currentsNumerical modellingPile groinsSWASH To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:76709357-e030-48d3-87b3-465dcd2e86d2 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2019.103558 Embargo date 2020-03-18 ISSN 0378-3839 Source Coastal Engineering, 153 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2019 R. Zhang, M.J.F. Stive Files PDF 1_s2.0_S0378383918303910_main.pdf 4.01 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:76709357-e030-48d3-87b3-465dcd2e86d2/datastream/OBJ/view