Erosive and accretive coastal profile response

Project SANDS To advance the mobile bed scaling laws and to test new instruments, identical tests are carried out on different scale levels in three hydraulic facilities; Hannover GWK Flume, Barcelona Flume and Delft Scheldt Flume. Data obtained in Hannover and Barcelona are not yet available. Focus is on the Delft data; on beach profile...

Fieldwork Coastal Engineering: Preliminary design of an artificial island in the Black Sea, Varna, Bulgaria

From Sunday September 30th until October 7th, a group of 16 Hydraulic engineering students and one teacher went to Bulgaria. Three Bulgarian students and two Bulgarian teachers from Sofia University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geology joined them at their arrival in Varna. The students were given an assignment concerning the...

Coastal erosion project, Diani beach, Kenya

Master project report. Since the seventies, the establishment of hotels and other facilities has increased the pressure on the Kenyan coast. During the last decade, hotel managers and residents in Diani Beach have been experiencing problems with erosion. The only measures taken to address the problem are individually built seawalls to protect...