Coastal Engineering

Wikiversity Department of Marine Engineering

Content summary

The course will deal with basic Coastal Engineering concepts such as water waves, their propagation and transformation, statistical representation of the sea state, tides and currents, sediment transport, coastal processes and beach dynamics, coastal structures, wave-structure interaction, environmental issues near coastal zones.

Goals

To help the reader to appreciate Coastal Engineering methods with a firm understanding of the underlying theoretical principles.

Learning materials

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Texts

Ocean Surface Waves: Their Physics and Prediction (2nd Edition) by Massel Stanislaw Ryszard, Inst of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland. (ISBN 978-9810-2-1686-3 (hardcover), 978-9810-2-2109-6 (paperback)).
Coastal Dynamics by Willem T. Bakker, Delft Hydraulics, Netherlands. (ISBN 978-9812-7-0373-6)
Random Seas and Design of Maritime Structures (3rd Edition) by Yoshimi Goda. (ISBN 978-9814-2-8239-0 (hardcover), 978-9814-2-8240-6 (paperback))

Lessons

Lesson 1: Water Wave Theories
Lesson 2: Wave Transformation
Lesson 3: Wave Pressure and Forces

           a) Waves in the Ocean and their Significance

Lesson 4: Wave-Structure Interaction
Lesson 5: Currents
Lesson 6: Wave-Current Interaction

           a) Interaction of Wind and Ocean Waves

Lesson 7: Tides
Lesson 8: Solitary Waves
Lesson 9: Tidal Inlets
Lesson 10: Basin Circulation
Lesson 11: Rubble-Mound Breakwaters
Lesson 12: Submerged Breakwaters
Lesson 13: Groynes
Lesson 14: Detached Breakwater
Lesson 15: Sand Nourishment
Lesson 16: Assessing Coastal Management Techniques
Lesson 17: Revetment
Lesson 18: Vertical Breakwaters
Lesson 19: Wave-Foundation Interaction
Lesson 20: Sediment Transport
Lesson 21: Wave Spectral Analysis
Lesson 22: Construction of Coastal Defenses
Lesson 23: Storm Surge
Lesson 24: Tsunami

             a) Refer to text - Tsunami: To Survive from Tsunami (published by World Scientific, ISBN 9789814277471 (hardcover))

Lesson 25: Wave Maker Theories
Lesson 26: Physical Modeling
Lesson 27: Numerical Modeling
Lesson 28: EIA for Coastal Engineering Projects

Assignments

Activities

Plan out a Breakwater using the proper materials
- Breakwaters are often build using 1/6T rocks and cobbled with No. 3 (smaller size) (See State Stds. Sect. 72)
Implement a 3D Computer Model visualization of a section of Coastline near you
- Demonstrate the effects of sea level rise with visualization tools (Modelling sea level rise)
Activity 1.
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Readings

Each activity has a suggested associated background reading selection.

Reading 1.
Study guide:
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References

Additional helpful readings include:

Elements of Ocean Engineering; Randall, Robert E., 1997, SNAME New York
Water Wave Mechanics for Engineers & Scientists; R.G. Dean, 1991, World Scientific Singapore
Descriptive Physical Oceanography; G.L. Pickard, 1990, Butterworth Heinemann Oxford

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