Modeling waves, currents and sandbars on natural beaches: The effect of surface rollers

A morphodynamic model has been extended to gain more fundamental knowledge about the formation of nearshore sand bars. The model describes feedbacks between waves, rollers, depth-averaged currents and bed evolution, so that self-organized processes can develop. Offshore wave, wind and tide condition...

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Autores: Ribas Prats, Francesca|||0000-0003-4701-5982, Swart, Huib E. de, Calvete Manrique, Daniel|||0000-0002-5402-5137, Falqués Serra, Albert|||0000-0002-3945-1509
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/26372
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/26372
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2011.02.016
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Sand bars--Forecasting
Coastal zone
Nearshore bars
Longshore currents
Waves on beaches
Rollers
Longshore sediment transport
Platges -- Erosió
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Geologia
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Sumario:A morphodynamic model has been extended to gain more fundamental knowledge about the formation of nearshore sand bars. The model describes feedbacks between waves, rollers, depth-averaged currents and bed evolution, so that self-organized processes can develop. Offshore wave, wind and tide conditions and the bathymetry measured at Egmond site (the Netherlands) are firstly applied to compute the longshore current and wave height profiles.