Coastal Structures and Solutions to Coastal Disasters Joint Conference 2015
Numerical Modelling of Wave Reflection and Transmission in Vertical Porous Structures
Publication: Coastal Structures and Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2015: Resilient Coastal Communities
ABSTRACT
This paper presents the results of a systematic validation of numerical simulation of reflection and transmission of rubble-mound breakwater structures. The aim of the study is to provide a body of validation measurements for increasingly complex situations, starting simple and building up the complexity in terms of breakwater geometry, wave conditions, and numerical simulation models. The predictions from a set of three different numerical models were compared against measurements from small scale physical model tests. The results of the comparison and the achieved level of accuracy are reported. Finally, a hypothetical application for the design of rubble-mound breakwaters is presented.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Elastocoast is a registered trademark of Elastogran GmbH, Lemförde, Germany (subsidiary of BASF)
The authors would like to thank prof J. van der Meer for providing additional information related to the HADEER tests (see appendix) and mr Gerben Jan Vos for his assistance during the physical model tests.
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Coastal Structures and Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2015: Resilient Coastal Communities
Pages: 876 - 890
Editors: Louise Wallendorf, U.S. Naval Academy and Daniel T. Cox, Ph.D., Oregon State University
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8030-4
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© 2017 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Jul 11, 2017
Published in print: Jul 11, 2017
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