Plant stiffness and biomass as drivers for drag forces under extreme wave loading: A flume study on mimics

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 117, Issue , 2016, Pages 70-78

  Paul, Maike ^a,f   Rupprecht, Franziska ^b   Möller, Iris ^c   Bouma, Tjeerd J ^d   Spencer, Tom ^c   Kudella, Matthias ^a   Wolters, Guido ^e   van Wesenbeeck, Bregje K ^e   Jensen, Kai ^b   Miranda Lange, Martin ^a   Schimmels, Stefan ^a  

^a Forschungszentrum Küste ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^e DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomass; Drag force; Frontal area; Plant mimics; Stiffness; Wave forcing

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; STIFFNESS; VEGETATION;

ARTIFICIAL VEGETATION; DRAG FORCES; FRONTAL AREAS; HYDRODYNAMIC LOADING; PLANT MIMICS; REGULAR AND IRREGULAR WAVES; VEGETATION PARAMETERS; WAVE FORCING;

DRAG;

BIOMASS; DRAG; FLOW VELOCITY; MIMICRY; PLANT; VEGETATION; WAVE FORCE;

EID: 84982860073     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2016.07.004     Document Type: Article

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