Wave disturbance behind low-crested structures: Diffraction and overtopping effects

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 1173-1185

  Vicinanza, Diego ^a   Cáceres, Iván ^b   Buccino, Mariano ^c   Gironella, Xavier ^b   Calabrese, Mario ^c  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D experiments; Longshore current; Low crested structure; Overtopping; Rip current; Wave diffraction; Wave transmission

Indexed keywords

3D EXPERIMENTS; LONGSHORE CURRENT; LOW-CRESTED STRUCTURE; OVERTOPPING; RIP CURRENT; WAVE DIFFRACTION;

CALCIUM; COASTAL ENGINEERING; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; EXPERIMENTS; HYDRAULIC MODELS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

WAVE TRANSMISSION;

BREAKWATER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDRAULICS; LEE WAVE; PREDICTION; THEORETICAL STUDY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE DIFFRACTION; WAVE FORCE; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION;

CACERES;

EID: 70349784921     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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