Comparison of new large and small scale overtopping tests for rubble mound breakwaters

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 351-373

  Lykke Andersen, T ^a   Burcharth, H F ^a   Gironella, X ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Large scale tests; Model effects; Rubble mound breakwaters; Scale effects; Wave overtopping

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED CONDITIONS; FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; LARGE SCALE TESTS; LARGE-SCALE MODELS; LENGTH SCALE; OVERTOPPING DISCHARGE; RUBBLE MOUND BREAKWATERS; SCALE EFFECTS; SCALE MODELS; SMALL SCALE; TEST RESULTS; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE KINEMATICS; WAVE OVERTOPPING; WAVE OVERTOPPINGS;

BREAKWATERS; TESTING; WATER WAVES; WIND EFFECTS;

COASTAL ENGINEERING;

BREAKWATER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCHARGE; KINEMATICS; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTOPPING; SCALE EFFECT; WAVE-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 79851509604     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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