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...

Ingleses - Brazil: Urban problems due to coastal morphology

MSc Project Hydraulic Engineering - Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Section Hydraulic Engineering and Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas da Terra e do Mar. - The town of Ingleses on Santa Catarina Island, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, is threatened by nature at...

Influence of the wave period in the dune erosion model DUROSTA

The dune erosion prediction method presently used in the safety assessment of the Dutch dune coast was developed for situations with wave periods up to 12 seconds. New insights predict that situations with wave periods larger than 12 seconds can be expected. Preliminary analyses of the potential influence of larger wave periods on dune erosion...

Long-term morphological evolution of the Western Dutch Wadden Sea

The present study considers long-term morphologic development of the inlets forming the Western Dutch Wadden Sea. This concerns analysis of field measurements carried out since closure of the Zuider Sea (1932) as well as an assessment of possible imporvements of long-term morphological prodictions made for this area using ASMITA. From field...

Uncertainty in the application of Bay Shape Equations.

From the several existing empirical equations that describe the planform of a bay, the Parabolic Bay Shape Equation (PBSE) is the only one that explicitly assesses an equilibrium bay shape. Research has been performed on the uncertainties regarding the static equilibrium planform (SEP) plotted by this equation but results have been more of a...