Diagnostic investigation of impulsive pressures induced by plunging breakers impinging on gravel beaches

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 252-266

  Pedrozo Acuña, Adrián ^a   Torres Freyermuth, Alec ^b   Zou, Qingping ^a   Hsu, Tian Jian ^b   Reeve, Dominic E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gravel beach; Hydrodynamics; Impulsive pressure; Numerical models; Plunging breaker; Porous media; Pressure gradient; RANS equations

Indexed keywords

IMPULSIVE PRESSURE; NUMERICAL MODELS; POROUS MEDIA; RANS EQUATION; RANS EQUATIONS;

BEACHES; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GRAVEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; PACKED BEDS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

GRAVEL; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LABORATORY METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRESSURE EFFECT; PRESSURE GRADIENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROCKY SHORE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURF ZONE; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 74449084088     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2009.09.010     Document Type: Article

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