Prototype measurements and small-scale model tests of wave overtopping at shallow rubble-mound breakwaters: the Ostia-Rome yacht harbour case

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 154-165

  Franco, Leopoldo ^a   Geeraerts, Jimmy ^b   Briganti, Riccardo ^a,d   Willems, Marc ^c   Bellotti, Giorgio ^a   De Rouck, Julien ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c FLANDERS HYDRAULICS RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Field measurements; Laboratory tests; Rubble mound breakwaters; Wave overtopping

Indexed keywords

BREAKWATERS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; LABORATORIES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SHIPS; STORMS; TESTING; WATER LEVELS; WATER WAVES; WIND EFFECTS; WIND STRESS; YACHTS;

FIELD MEASUREMENTS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; LABORATORY TESTS; LEVEL CHARACTERISTICS; OVERTOPPING DISCHARGES; PARAMETRIC TESTS; PROTOTYPE MEASUREMENTS; ROUGHNESS FACTORS; RUBBLE-MOUND BREAKWATERS; SCALE EFFECTS; SEAWARD SLOPES; SMALL SCALE; SMALL-SCALE MODELS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; WAVE BASINS; WAVE FLUMES; WAVE OVERTOPPING; WAVE-BREAKING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BREAKWATER; LABORATORY METHOD; OVERTOPPING; STORM; WATER LEVEL; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE MODELING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAZIO; ROMA [LAZIO]; ROME; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 59149083843     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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