Individual Violent Overtopping Events: New Insights

R. Jayaratne, A. Hunt-Raby, G. N. Bullock, Henrik Bredmose

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    Abstract

    Wave overtopping is essentially a discrete process in which disastrous consequences can arise from the effect of one or two waves; few of the thousands of previous experiments have focused on the properties of individual events. The violent impacts of water waves on walls create velocities and pressures (impulse and oscillations) much larger than those associated with the propagation of ordinary waves under gravity. The present investigation has gathered detailed measurements of surface elevations, impact velocities, impact pressures and individual overtopping volumes on vertical and sloped seawalls from highly controlled laboratory experiments to increase the qualitative and quantitative understanding of infrequent events. Numerical studies were also carried out to compare with the experimental results. Initial experimental and numerical results of this project (Fundamentals of Overtopping from Individual Violent Water-Wave Impacts) are presented in this paper.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationCOASTAL ENGINEERING 2008 : Proceedings of the 31st International Conference
    Volume1-5
    PublisherWorld Scientific
    Publication date2009
    Pages2983-2995
    ISBN (Print)978-981-4277-36-5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2009
    Event31st International Conference on Coastal Engineering - Hamburg, Germany
    Duration: 31 Aug 20085 Sept 2008
    Conference number: 31

    Conference

    Conference31st International Conference on Coastal Engineering
    Number31
    Country/TerritoryGermany
    CityHamburg
    Period31/08/200805/09/2008

    Keywords

    • Engineering
    • Walls
    • Wave impacts

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