In:
Coastal Engineering Proceedings, Coastal Engineering Research Council, , No. 15 ( 1976-01-29), p. 26-
Abstract:
An experimental description is presented for 'the transformation of periodic waves which approach breaking on a gently sloping beach. The data include the variation of wave height, phase velocity, wave surface profiles, and the maximum value of the wave height to water depth ratio (H/h)max around the breaking point. The results are compared with the theories of sinusoidal and cnoidal wave shoaling, and the latter is shown in most cases to agree remarkably well when the laminar energy loss along the walls and bottom of the wave tank is included. An empirical relation is established between wave length to water depth ratio L/h at the breaking point and the deep water wave steepness H0/L0. Also the maximum wave height to water depth ratio at breaking shows considerably less scattering than found previously, when plotted versus S = hx L/h, hx being bottom slope.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2156-1028
,
0589-087X
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
Coastal Engineering Research Council
Publication Date:
1976
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2628774-2
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