Laboratory observations and numerical simulations of wave height attenuation in heterogeneous vegetation

Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 56-65

  Blackmar, Philip J ^a   Cox, Daniel T ^b   Wu, Wei Cheng ^b  

^a HDR Engineering Inc   (United States)

^b Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom friction; Estuaries; FUNWAVE; Numerical model; Physical model; Vegetation damping; Wave attenuation; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; BOTTOM FRICTION; FUNWAVE; PHYSICAL MODEL; PHYSICAL MODEL EXPERIMENTS; PREDICTION EQUATIONS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; WAVE ATTENUATION;

ESTUARIES; EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; WATER WAVES; WELDING ELECTRODES; WETLANDS;

VEGETATION;

BOTTOM FRICTION; ESTUARY; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; VEGETATION; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVE HEIGHT; WETLAND;

EID: 84891349081     PISSN: 0733950X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WW.1943-5460.0000215     Document Type: Article

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