Coastal Dynamics

This textbook on Coastal Dynamics focuses on the interrelation between physical wave, flow and sediment transport phenomena and the resulting morphodynamics of a wide variety of coastal systems. The textbook is unique in that it explicitly connects the dynamics of open coasts and tidal basins; not only is the interaction between open coasts and...

Development and Extension of An Aggregated Scale Model: Part 1 – Background to ASMITA

Whilst much attention has been given to models that describe wave, tide and sediment transport processes in sufficient detail to determine the local changes in bed level over a relatively detailed representation of the bathymetry, far less attention has been given to models that consider the problem at a much larger scale (e.g. that of...

Cross-shore Flow in Waves Beaking on a Beach

Extreme waves and wave loading in shallow water

As an alternative to a more or less standard derivation procedure for design wave heights in relatively shallow water, two improvements of the procedure are suggested which lead to less conservative results. These improvements are based on observations of shallow water effects on both the decay of total wave energy density and on the extreme...

Snelheidsveld in Golven: Inventarisatie van metingen in model en natuur

Het doel van het onderzoek is om te komen tot een inventarisatie van literatuur met betrekking tot snelheidvelden in golven. Aan de hand van deze inventarisatie kan in een later stadium inzicht worden verkregen in de toepasbaarheid van bestaande golftheorieen of worden overgegaan tot de opzet van een beschrijvend model van het snelheidsveld...