Numerical experiments on breaking waves on contrasting beaches using a two-phase flow approach

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 48, Issue , 2012, Pages 68-78

  Bakhtyar, R ^a   Barry, D A ^a   Kees, C E ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Beach morphology; Multi phase flow; Nearshore hydrodynamics; Sediment transport; Spilling and plunging breakers; Turbulent energy

Indexed keywords

BEACH MORPHODYNAMICS; BEACH PROFILE; BED SLOPE; BREAKING POINT; BREAKING WAVES; DISSIPATIVE BEACHES; DRIVING FACTORS; FULLY-COUPLED; GRAIN SIZE; INTERGRANULAR STRESS; INTERMEDIATE BEACHES; LABORATORY SCALE; NEAR-SHORE ZONES; NEARSHORE HYDRODYNAMICS; NEARSHORES; NEW PARAMETERS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PLUNGING BREAKERS; PROFILE EVOLUTION; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATION; SAND BEACH; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION; SEDIMENT GRAIN SIZE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT PROCESS; SWASH ZONE; TRANSPORT RATE; TURBULENT ENERGIES; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; TURBULENT STRESS; TWO PHASE FLOW MODEL; WAVE CHARACTERISTICS; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE PERIOD; WAVEBREAKING;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MORPHOLOGY; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TWO PHASE FLOW; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

BEACHES;

BEACH MORPHOLOGY; BEACH PROFILE; BREAKING WAVE; GRAIN SIZE; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; MORPHODYNAMICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURF ZONE; TURBULENT FLOW; TWO PHASE FLOW; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE ENERGY;

EID: 84866368605     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.03.025     Document Type: Article

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