Field measurements of wave overtopping at the rubble mound breakwater of Rome-Ostia yacht harbour

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1155-1174

  Briganti, Riccardo ^a   Bellotti, Giorgio ^a   Franco, Leopoldo ^a   De Rouck, Julien ^b   Geeraerts, Jimmy ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Field data; Prototype measurements; Rubble mound breakwater; Wave overtopping

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; PORTS AND HARBORS; PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS; SEA LEVEL; WATER WAVES; YACHTS;

PROTOTYPE MEASUREMENTS; RUBBLE MOUND BREAKWATER; WAVE OVERTOPPING;

BREAKWATERS;

HARBOR; OVERTOPPING; RUBBLE BREAKWATER;

EID: 28644445724     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2005.07.001     Document Type: Article

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