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Bibliographic resource
Type of document
Book chapters
Type of document
Conference paper
BibLvlCode
AM
Title
Waves overtopping a wide-crested dike
Abstract
If a coastal dike has a crest width of more than say a few meters, then wave overtopping will be significantly reduced due to the crest width, because kinetic energy can be dissipated on the crest and water on the crest can flow back towards the seaside. In coastal towns built on dune belts often a wide-crested coastal dike was constructed as both coastal protection and sea promenade. However, quantifying the effect of such a wide crest on wave overtopping is not straightforward because no empirical overtopping formulas are given in literature for this kind of configuration. Therefore physical scale model research was carried out. Also a simplified theoretical model concept was used based on an energy balance formulation of a single overtopping wave. Combining the scale model measurements with the theoretical model, a semi-empirical formula was developed and calibrated.
Bibliographic citation
Verwaest, T.; Vanpoucke, Ph.; Willems, M.; De Mulder, T. (2011). Waves overtopping a wide-crested dike, in: The 32nd International Conference on Coastal Engineering (ICCE 2010), June 30 - July 5, 2010, Shanghai, China: book of abstracts. pp. Paper No. 191
location created
Berchemlei 115
Topic
Marine

Authors

author
Name
Toon Verwaest
Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3911-6962
author
Name
Philippe Vanpoucke
author
Name
Marc Willems
Identifier
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0009-1221
author
Name
Tom De Mulder
Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0823-105X

thesaurus terms

term
Dikes (term code: 97488 - defined in term set: Transportation Research Thesaurus)
Overtopping (term code: 5902 - defined in term set: ASFA Thesaurus List)

Document metadata

date created
2010-01-06
date modified
2010-01-06