WIT Press


Representation Of Partial Wave Reflection And Transmission For Rubble Mound Coastal Structures

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

18

Pages

9

Published

1996

Size

656 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/HY960421

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

Th.V. Karambas & B.C. Bowers

Abstract

This work presents a description of partial wave reflection and transmission effects for rubble mound structures using time dependent depth averaged equations of the type used in a Boussinesq non linear wave model and in a hyperbolic linear wave model. Energy losses due to friction effects on the rough slope of a rubble mound structure can be represented using a friction area in front of a vertically faced homogeneous porous structure. The flow resistance within the structure is simulated in a similar way by incorporating an additional term in the momentum equation given by a Dupuit-Forchheimer relationship. 1. Introduction Pre

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