CRESCENTIC BARS and NEARSHORE SELF-ORGANIZATION PROCESSES

Proceedings of the Coastal Engineering Conference

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 3765-3777

  Coco, Giovanni ^a   Caballeria, M ^b   Falques A ^c   Huntley, D A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIC CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF CATALONIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; FEED-BACK LOOP; INCIDENT WAVES; LOW-FREQUENCY MOTION; NON-LINEAR SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; RHYTHMIC PATTERNS; SELF-ORGANIZATION PROCESS; STIRRING EFFECTS;

COASTAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 84950113947     PISSN: 01613782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812791306_0315     Document Type: Conference Paper

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