Wave overtopping and overwash of dunes

Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 26-33

  Figlus, Jens ^a   Kobayashi, Nobuhisa ^a   Gralher, Christine ^b   Iranzo, Vicente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beach; Beaches; Dunes; Erosion; Numerical modeling; Numerical models; Overwash; Sand; Sediment transport; Wave overtopping

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001785522     PISSN: 0733950X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WW.1943-5460.0000060     Document Type: Article

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