The recirculation near Maasvlakte 2 in the Rhine ROFI: Assessing the influence of a manmade headland and baroclinic processes

In times of rapid urbanization, engineering interventions in coastal systems have become more common. It is important to understand the interplay of these engineered solutions with their natural environment to minimize hazardous side effects to our ecology, economy and coastal safety. In a numerical study by Rijnsburger (2021), a flow...

Seasonal hydro-and morphodynamics of data-limited bay and coastal inlet systems

The main objective of this study is to unravel the physical processes that control typical coastal systems in Central Vietnam while challenged by the fact that it is a data limited environment. Inlets and bays are the typical coastal system along the central coast of Vietnam. These coastal systems are strongly influenced by tropical monsoon...

Analysis of embayed beach planform stability in Danang, Vietnam

This study presents an analysis of the planform stability of the complex embayed beach system of Da Nang Bay, central Vietnam. As a result of the intensification of extreme weather conditions and human activities in this area (e.g. land reclamation, river damming, and coastal structures), coastal safety as well as economic and ecological values...

An Analysis of the Physical Coastal System along East Coast Park, Singapore

East Coast Park is a 15 km long coastal park along the southeast coast of Singapore. It is built on entirely reclaimed land and comprises a sandy shoreline. The beaches along this shoreline are formed due to the implementation of anthropogenic structures all along this stretch of coast through so-called headland control. These structures were...

Case study Piçarras Beach: Erosion and nourishment of a headland bay beach

Master project report. Piçarras is one of the touristic beaches of Santa Catarina state in Brazil. Piçarras beach is a headland bay beach. In the bay irregular features like an island, rocky outcrops and shoals are present influencing wave propagation. In the south Piçarras is bounded by Piçarras river. The river mouth has been fixated in 1970,...

Use of long groines as artificial headlands

The construction of relatively short groins to trap fillets of sand along coastal reaches characterized by prevailing littoral transport has become a well-known practice in coastal engineering. Less common, but often equally important, is the use of long groins to form artificial headlands which trap sand more or less permanently in artificial...