Experimental Verification of Numerical Model for Nonlinear Wave Evolutions
Publication: Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
Volume 120, Issue 6
Abstract
Data collected from measurements in a two‐dimensional (2D) wave flume with a trapezoidal bar on a horizontal bottom are used to test the numerical model previously developed by the writers. The experiments were performed both for monochromatic and for random waves, with two different peak frequencies. Overall agreement between the computations and the measurements is quite satisfactory, indicating that the numerical model favorably predicts waveform evolutions resulting from shoaling over the upslope, near‐resonant wave‐wave interactions over the bar, and decomposition behind the bar.
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Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
Volume 120 • Issue 6 • November 1994
Pages: 637 - 644
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Copyright © 1994 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Feb 3, 1993
Published online: Nov 1, 1994
Published in print: Nov 1994
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