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Experimental study on drag coefficient of flexible vegetation under non-breaking waves
Reis, R.A.; Fortes, C.J.E.M.; Rodrigues, J.A.; Hu, Z.; Suzuki, T. (2024). Experimental study on drag coefficient of flexible vegetation under non-breaking waves. Ocean Eng. 296: 117002. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.117002
In: Ocean Engineering. Pergamon: Elmsford. ISSN 0029-8018; e-ISSN 1873-5258, more
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Keywords
    Coastal protection > Coastal safety against extreme storms > Soft coastal defences
    Numerical modelling
Author keywords
    Drag coefficient; Flexible vegetation; Vegetation motion; Inertia; Wave dissipation

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  • Reis, R.A.
  • Fortes, C.J.E.M.
  • Rodrigues, J.A.

Abstract
    Laboratory experiments of wave propagation over rigid and flexible vegetation fields, with the same configurations, were conducted to understand the effect of vegetation flexibility on the drag coefficient (CD). The direct method and the least squares method (LSM), based on force and flow measurements, are applied to calculate the CD in the experimental conditions. The formulations of both methods are extended to estimate the CD for flexible vegetation cases. A video analysis was performed to account for the swaying motion. Typically, wave dissipation is lower for flexible than for rigid vegetation of the same configuration, under the same flow condition. Therefore, a proportional effect in the corresponding CD results, obtained from common CD calibration to wave dissipation without considering vegetation motion, is usually observed. However, the present results show that although the wave dissipation was 34% lower for flexible relative to rigid vegetation, the respective CD values were close. CD estimations considering vegetation motion and inertia suggest that CD of flexible vegetation was up to 13% higher relative to rigid vegetation. Accounting for inertia reduced the CD for rigid vegetation up to 7%, while raised the CD for flexible vegetation up to 13%.

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