Wave-induced water table fluctuations, sediment transport and beach profile change: Modeling and comparison with large-scale laboratory experiments

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-118

  Bakhtyar, R ^a   Brovelli, A ^a   Barry, D A ^a   Li, L ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beach groundwater; Foreshore evolution; Groundwater flow; Infiltration exfiltration; Nearshore hydrodynamics

Indexed keywords

BEACH PROFILE; BEACH PROFILE EVOLUTION; BEACHFACE; BREAKING POINT; COASTAL AQUIFERS; COASTAL GROUNDWATER; COMBINED MODEL; EXFILTRATION; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FORESHORE EVOLUTION; GROUND-WATER CIRCULATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW MODEL; HIGH WATER TABLE; HYDRAULIC GRADIENTS; HYDRAULIC HEADS; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; INFILTRATION/EXFILTRATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW WATER; NEARSHORE HYDRODYNAMICS; NEARSHORES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POROUS MEDIUM; PROCESS-BASED MODELING; SURF ZONES; SWASH ZONE; TURBULENCE CLOSURES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; VOLUME OF FLUIDS; WATER TABLE FLUCTUATIONS; WATER TABLES; WAVE MOTIONS; WAVE SHOALING; WAVEBREAKING;

AQUIFERS; BEACHES; BIOLOGY; COASTAL ENGINEERING; COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; POROUS MATERIALS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEEPAGE; SOIL MECHANICS; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

BEACH PROFILE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; INFILTRATION; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHOALING WAVE; SURF ZONE; WATER TABLE; WATER WAVE; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 78349305183     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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