Author(s)

B.A. O'Connor, J. Nicholson & N.J. MacDonald

Abstract

A morphological model, comprising a suite of wave and current, sediment transport and bed level change modules, is applied to a hypothetical offshore breakwater layout. The accuracy of the morphological changes predicted by the model is then checked using available laboratory and field data. 1 Introduction Engineering works on sandy coastlines disturb the local sediment transport pattern and consequently generate changes in the local morphology. There is, therefore, a need to be able to predict such changes and, in recent years, this has led to the development of a range of morphological models (see, for example, De Vriend et al. [5]). Much of the latest work on these models has suggested the need to include the effects of wave-current interaction, the infl

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