The applicability of the shallow water equations for modelling violent wave overtopping

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-15

  Shiach, J B ^a   Mingham, C G ^a   Ingram, D M ^a   Bruce, T ^b  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite volume method; Shallow water equations; Surface gradient method; Violent wave overtopping

Indexed keywords

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; PROBABILITY; WATER;

MONOTONIC RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS;

COASTAL ENGINEERING;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; OVERTOPPING; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; WAVE-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 1642529584     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2003.11.001     Document Type: Article

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