Reprint
Dynamics of the Coastal Zone
Edited by
March 2020
182 pages
- ISBN978-3-03928-484-9 (Paperback)
- ISBN978-3-03928-485-6 (PDF)
This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Dynamics of the Coastal Zone that was published in
Engineering
Environmental & Earth Sciences
Summary
The coastal zone is the host to many human activities, which have significantly increased in the last decades. However, sea level rise and more frequent storm events severely affect beaches and coastal structures, with negative consequences and dramatic impacts on coastal communities. These aspects add to typical coastal problems, like flooding and beach erosion, which already leading to large economic losses and human fatalities. Modeling is thus fundamental for an exhaustive understanding of the nearshore region in the present and future environment. Innovative tools and technologies may help to better understand coastal processes in terms of hydrodynamics, sediment transport, bed morphology, and their interaction with coastal structures. This book collects several contributions focusing on nearshore dynamics, and span among several time and spatial scales using both physical and numerical approaches. The aim is to describe the most recent advances in coastal dynamics.
Format
- Paperback
License
© 2020 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
wave parameterization; wave skewness; morphodynamic modelling; sediment transport; delft3d; wave shape; small scale physical modelling; wave overtopping; uncertainty analysis; random waves; wave spectra; longshore transport; climate change; downscaling; Long (infragravity) waves; forced waves; bound waves; shoaling; dissipation; Nonlinear Shallow-Water Equations; numerical simulation; marine radar; Normalized Scalar Product; wave-field estimate; bathymetry estimate; beach inundation; surf zone; plunging breaker; spilling breaker; turbulence intensity; coherent events; coastal region; hydrodynamics; submerged breakwaters; three-dimensional model; Navier-Stokes equations; integral contravariant formulation; time-dependent curvilinear coordinates; swash; runup; bed shear stress; friction coefficient; shear plate; beach equilibrium; initial morphology; large-scale experiments; beach erosion; beach recovery; sediment transport; coastal region; surf zone; swash zone; beach erosion; hydrodynamics; morphodynamics; laboratory experiments; analytical and numerical modeling; statistical methods; climate changes