Random wave runup and overtopping a steep sea wall: Shallow-water and Boussinesq modelling with generalised breaking and wall impact algorithms validated against laboratory and field measurements

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 74, Issue , 2013, Pages 33-49

  McCabe, M V ^a,b   Stansby, P K ^a   Apsley, D D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Halcrow Group Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boussinesq equations; Nonlinear shallow water equations; Random waves; Recurves; Sea walls; Wave breaking; Wave overtopping; Wave runup

Indexed keywords

BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS; NON-LINEAR SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; RANDOM WAVES; RECURVES; WAVE OVERTOPPINGS; WAVE RUNUP; WAVEBREAKING;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; EXPERIMENTS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRODUCTION PLATFORMS; REEFS;

WATER WAVES;

ALGORITHM; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; FIELD METHOD; FLUME EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY METHOD; OVERTOPPING; RANDOM WAVE; SEA WALL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; WATER DEPTH; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE RUNUP;

EID: 84872417243     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2012.11.010     Document Type: Article

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