Format:
1 online resource (220 pages)
ISBN:
9781607504535
Series Statement:
Deltares Select Series, v. 3
Content:
Explains the dune erosion during storm surges as it occurs along the Dutch coast. This book discusses areas including a large scale erosion experiment designed to improve insight into near dune hydrodynamics, sediment transport and interaction between dune face and swash zone.
Content:
Title Page -- Contents -- Abstract -- Samenvatting -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Dune erosion -- Societal importance -- Process-based modeling of dune erosion -- Thesis outline -- Chapter 2 Large scale dune erosion tests -- Introduction -- Physical model description and instrument deployment -- Set up of physical model -- Test programme -- Instrument deployment -- Measured profiles and erosion volumes -- Profiles -- Erosion volumes -- Detailed test results -- Waves -- Flow -- Sediment concentrations -- Sediment transports -- Effect of the wave period -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3 Interaction of dune face and swash zone -- Introduction -- High resolution dune face reconstruction from stereo images -- Introduction -- Camera model -- Camera calibration -- Image pre-processing -- Feature matching -- World coordinates from feature matching -- An example reconstruction -- Dune face erosion due to wave impacts -- Previous studies on dune face erosion due to wave impacts -- Visual observations during the Deltaflume experiment -- Dune face impact model -- Chapter 4 Modeling near dune hydrodynamics -- Introduction -- Model description -- Model boundaries -- Hydrodynamic simulation for the Deltaflume experiment -- Hydrodynamic simulations for the La Jolla field experiment -- Interaction between short wave groups and long waves -- Conclusions and discussion -- Chapter 5 Modeling near dune sediment suspensions -- Introduction -- Data analysis -- 1DV Sediment suspension model -- 1DV Model description -- Simulations -- Wave and depth averaged sediment concentration formulation -- Conclusions and discussion -- Conclusions -- Discussion and recommendations -- Chapter 6 Modeling dune erosion -- Introduction -- Model adaptations and extensions -- Wave energy dissipation formulation -- Equilibrium sediment concentration formulation -- Wave shape model.
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Additional Edition:
9781607500414
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Thiel de Vries, Jacob Simon Marie van Dune erosion during storm surges Amsterdam : IOS Pr., 2009 9781607500414
Language:
English
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