Soft Mud Response to Water Waves
Publication: Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
Volume 116, Issue 5
Abstract
Motion within soft mud beds, wave‐induced bed shear stress, and wave attenuation under small amplitude waves are briefly examined using an analytic approach to gain insight into the mechanism by which coastal mud responds to water waves. The cohesive mud bed is discretized into layers of simple linear viscoelastic material characterized by constant density, viscosity, and shear modulus of elasticity, for approximately simulating depth‐varying bed properties as well as energy dissipation. Model results on wave orbital velocities, dynamic pressure, and wave attenuation are compared with limited data from wave flume tests on partially consolidated beds under relatively low deformations and show acceptable agreement. Wave attenuation coefficients exhibit dual dependence on the degree of bed consolidation and sediment composition. In the absence of adequate data on bed shear stress over mobile, partially consolidated mud beds, this method offers an approximate procedure useful for bed shear stress estimation required for resuspension‐rate calculations in small laboratory flumes.
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Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
Volume 116 • Issue 5 • September 1990
Pages: 634 - 650
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