Recent Developments in the Design of Conventional Rubble Mound Structures

Conventional rubble mound structures such as breakwaters, seawalls, and revetments are the most common type of coastal structures around the world used to protect harbour basins and embankments from wave action. To have a safe and economic design, two aspects need to be considered. The first one is the structural stability where the required...

3D RANS simulations of shallow water effects on rudder hydrodynamic characteristics

An accurate estimation of the rudder forces and moments is essential for manoeuvrability prediction. Previous research has shown that ships have different manoeuvring performance in deep and shallow water. Before considering the rudder’s contribution to shallow water manoeuvring, it is meaningful to analyse the shallow water effects on the...

Optimization of ships in shallow water with viscous flow computations and surrogate modeling

Shallow water effects change the flow around a ship significantly which can affect the optimum design of the hull. This paper describes a study into the optimization of the aft ship region for various water depths. The research focuses on variations of the following parameters of a hull form: The athwart ship’s propeller location, the tunnel top...

The influence of shallow water and hull form variations on inland ship resistance

Effects of a hull form variation and shallow water on a 110-meter inland ship are presented as preliminary results of the Top Ships project, which is initiated in order to improve inland ship design tools and design guidelines.

Design guidelines and empirical evaluation tools for inland ships

For inland ships, state-of-the-art hull form design is to a large extent based on experience, common sense, or adjusting previous designs. The idea therefore arises that further optimization is possible if the right knowledge is available. This knowledge is insufficiently available due to two main reasons. First, research into inland ship...

Viscous-flow calculations for KVLCC2 in deep and shallow water

In the SIMMAN 2008 workshop, the capability of CFD tools to predict the flow around manoeuvring ships has been investigated. It was decided to continue this effort but to extend the work to the flow around ships in shallow water. In this paper, CFD calculations for the KLVCC2 are presented. The aim of the study is to verify and validate the...

Riprap stability for deep water, shallow water and steep foreshores

In the Rock Manual [2007] two sets of equations for the determination of rock stability in breakwaters armour layers are presented. One set is the original formula presented by Van der Meer [1988], valid for deep water conditions. This set uses the parameters Hs and Tm. The other set is an adaptation of these formulae, using the parameters H2%...

A practical method for design of coastal structures in shallow water

Modern design formula for coastal structures (like rock stability formula and overtopping formula use wave parameters (H2% and Tm-1,0) which are not readily available from standard boundary condition wave data. For transforming values like Hs and Tp to the parameters used in the new formulas, often-fixed conversion factors are used. However,...

A joint data assimilation-coupling algorithm applied to shallow water flood models

In the context of river hydraulics, we develop the idea of a richer local zoom model superposed to a given global model. The local zoom model (2D shallow water equations in flooded parts) describes additional physical phenomena which are not represented by the basic global model (1D shallow-water equations with storage area). The weak coupling...

Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for the Shallow-Water Equations with bathymetric terms and dry areas

Shallow-Water Equations are encountered in many applications related to hydraulics, flood propagation or dam break problems. This set of nonlinear hyperbolic equations models a fluid flow in a domain where the depth of the fluid is much lower than its horizontal dimensions. Usually, these equations are treated using Finite Difference, Finite...

The effect of foreshore slope on breakwater stability

Experience has shown that stability parameters for breakwater armour are different for steep and shallow foreshores, as well as for deep and shallow water. A change from a deep water spectral information (Tm0) to shallow water spectral information (Tm-1,0) does not completely explains this difference. Tests have shown that stability also depends...

Performance of a spectral wind-wave model in shallow water

Extreme waves and wave loading in shallow water

As an alternative to a more or less standard derivation procedure for design wave heights in relatively shallow water, two improvements of the procedure are suggested which lead to less conservative results. These improvements are based on observations of shallow water effects on both the decay of total wave energy density and on the extreme...

Calibration and Verification of a Dissipation Model for Random Breaking Waves

Statistical evaluation of wave conditions in a deltaic area

Coastal engineering problems concerning wind waves and swell can be solved with the aid of hydraulic or mathematical models. The irregular wave field i.e. the state of the sea surface can be described in a sufficient way for engineering problems either by parameters such as significant wave height and mean wave period, or in the form of power...