The impact of different nourishment designs: Evaluated at the Domburg coast, the Netherlands

The coastline near Domburg, in the southwest delta of the Netherlands, has been preserved with sand for three decades. Maintenance was conducted on the beach between the low water line and the dune foot every 4 years. To extent this interval, a shoreface nourishment was implemented in 2017 and was supplemented with a beach nourishment in 2019....

Sediment- and morphodynamics of shoreface nourishments along the North-Holland coast

The Dutch coastal maintenance policy which was implemented in 1990 aims at fighting structural erosion by nourishing sand. Initially, the beaches were nourished. The lifetime of these beach nourishments turned out to be relatively short (~2 yrs), especially at identified erosion ‘hotspots’ along the North-Holland coast (e.g. Egmond aan Zee)....

Research on the relation between breaker bar movement and volume fluctuations along the Holland coast

This thesis concentrates on the autonomous behaviour of the breaker bars in front of the Holland coast in the period 1965-2006. The breaker bars in front of the Holland coast show a seaward movement, starting small at the waterline, growing during their seaward motion and dying out at deeper water. A typical profile in front of the Holland coast...

Beach erosion and rip channels

Short note on the relation between rip channels and beach erosion.

Brandingsruggen voor de Delflandse kust

De Nederlandse kust is verre van uniform. Zo is een opvallend verschijnsel langs de kust het ontbreken van brandingsruggen voor de Delflandse kust, ter hoogte en ten zuiden van Scheveningen. Deze brandingsruggen worden normaliter gevormd onder brekende golven ter plaatse van de brekerlijn. Dit komt mede omdat onder de bijna brekende en net...

The dynamics of breaker bars: Considered as a diffusion process

In the scope of NOURTEC, an EEC project, efforts are made to simulate the behaviour of executed foreshore supplies with the aid of mathematical computer models. One of the models used are line models. On behalf of the DUT two studies contribute to NOURTEC line modelling. One concentrates on the longshore transport, and the present study focuses...