Hydraulic stability of cube-armored mound breakwaters in depth-limited breaking wave conditions

Armor erosion due to wave attack has been studied intensively since it is considered the main failure mode of mound breakwaters. Cube-armored mound breakwaters in depth-limited breaking wave conditions are common in practice but have received limited attention in the literature. In this study, 2D physical tests were performed on non...

Experimental Measurements of Wave Impacts in a Breaking Dam Flow: An Application of Computer Vision for Quantitative Reconstruction of the Free Surface in Breaking Waves

Breaking water waves still represent a very active research area, as they are involved in a broad spectrum of situations ranging from safety at sea to climate change. The detailed knowledge of the location of the free surface in case of breaking waves or wave impacts could prevent structural damages, increase the efficiency of ship hulls and...

Mastering Breaking Waves in the Multiphase Wave Lab at MARIN

Wave impact tests are performed in the LNG industry to design the structure of the cargo containment system (CCS) of the vessels and to study the physics of breaking wave impacts. The state-of-the-art methodology divides the wave impact flow into two parts: the global flow and the local flow. The global flow considered as the solution of the...

Non-Hydrostatic Computations of Nearshore Hydrodynamics

The nearshore zone is an active zone that can be quite inhospitable to humans due to violent wave breaking and strong rip currents. Rip currents are shore normal jet-like currents that typically extend from near the shoreline out past the line of breaking waves. Observations have concluded that a rip current system generally consists of 4 parts....