Although detached, low-crested breakwaters are frequently employed for beach stabilization, no design tool is available nowadays that reliably predicts the transmissivity of these structures for a wide range of engineering conditions. With this in view, the paper presents a semiempirical model where the predictive equations have been obtained starting from a crude schematization of the physical processes that govern wave transmission. The obtained results are encouraging and show good agreement with a large ensemble of experimental data.
Conceptual approach for prediction of wave transmission at low crested breakwaters / Buccino, Mariano; Calabrese, Mario. - In: JOURNAL OF WATERWAY PORT COASTAL AND OCEAN ENGINEERING-ASCE. - ISSN 0733-950X. - STAMPA. - 133:3(2007), pp. 213-224. [10.1061/(ASCE)0733-950X(2007)133:3(213)]
Conceptual approach for prediction of wave transmission at low crested breakwaters
BUCCINO, MARIANO;CALABRESE, MARIO
2007
Abstract
Although detached, low-crested breakwaters are frequently employed for beach stabilization, no design tool is available nowadays that reliably predicts the transmissivity of these structures for a wide range of engineering conditions. With this in view, the paper presents a semiempirical model where the predictive equations have been obtained starting from a crude schematization of the physical processes that govern wave transmission. The obtained results are encouraging and show good agreement with a large ensemble of experimental data.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.