Information
- Type
- Project
- Name
- Design coastal safety measures Middelkerke
- Description @en
- The integrated coastal safety master plan (Afdeling Kust, 2011) has been approved by the Flemish government to realize protections against extreme storm events. However, the present coastal defenses in the Flemish coast do not fully satisfy these criteria. One of the weak links in the Flemish coast is Middelkerke zone (Zone 74-88). In this zone, storm return wall and stilling wave basin concept will be used to reduce wave overtopping over the dikes. The design wall height and wave force will be studied by numerical models (wave transformation in shallow foreshore) and physical models (wave overtopping and wave force).
- Start date
- 2014-9
- End date
- 2022-8
Expertise
- Coastal and estuarine hydraulics
- defined term set: Flemish Research Disciplines
- term code: 179340
- Hydraulic structures
- defined term set: Flemish Research Disciplines
- term code: 179315
- Numerical modelling and design
- defined term set: Flemish Research Disciplines
- term code: 179426
- Overtopping
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 5902
- Physical models
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 6186
- PRINC_FUND - 5699 - Other Flemish public, semi-private and pararegional institutions not mentioned elsewhere
- defined term set: FRIS Principal Funding Codes
- term code: 177832