Wave run-up and overtopping on smooth and rough slopes of coastal structures

✍ Scribed by N.J. Shankar; M.P.R. Jayaratne

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 271 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0029-8018
• DOI: 10.1016/s0029-8018(02)00016-1

✦ Synopsis

A series of hydraulic model tests has been carried out in a glass wave flume to investigate the influences of wave height, wave period, wave steepness, surf similarity parameter, roughness, layer thickness and porosity on wave run-up and overtopping of 1:2 sloped impermeable and permeable breakwaters fronted by a 1:10 gentle, smooth beach slope. The analysis of results involves the correlation between the overtopping energy transfer with the relative wall height and the relationship between wave run-up and overtopping rate. Further, measured wave run-up and overtopping rates are compared with the results given in the Shore Protection Manual (1984), Automated Coastal Engineering System (1992) and results of other investigators.