Conceptual Approach for Prediction of Wave Transmission at Low-Crested Breakwaters
Publication: Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
Volume 133, Issue 3
Abstract
Although detached, low-crested breakwaters are frequently employed for beach stabilization, no design tool is available nowadays that reliably predicts the transmissivity of these structures for a wide range of engineering conditions. With this in view, the paper presents a semiempirical model where the predictive equations have been obtained starting from a crude schematization of the physical processes that govern wave transmission. The obtained results are encouraging and show good agreement with a large ensemble of experimental data.
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Acknowledgments
The writers wish to gratefully acknowledge Dr. J. W. van der Meer, as well as the entire team of researchers of the European project DELOS, who facilitated the data gathering and improved the quality of the analysis by a number of very interesting suggestions. Moreover, the writers thank Dr. J. Loveless (University of Bristol, U.K.) for providing the “UBr” data and Professor D. Vicinanza (Second University of Naples) for the assistance in data analysis, as well as the two anonymous reviewers, who contributed to increasing the quality of the work. Finally the writers gratefully acknowledge the GWK team, J. Gruene, R. Schmidt, and U. Sparboom, for the scientific and technical support.
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Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
Volume 133 • Issue 3 • May 2007
Pages: 213 - 224
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Received: Jul 29, 2004
Accepted: Mar 20, 2006
Published online: May 1, 2007
Published in print: May 2007
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