Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering - Vol. 28
COASTAL PROCESSES
Concepts in Coastal Engineering and Their Application to Multifarious Environment
by Tomoya Shibayama (Yokohama National University, Japan)
This book on coastal processes provides us with important concepts in coastal engineering and their application to coastal processes and disaster prevention works. The first part describes basic concepts of coastal engineering, dealing mainly with wave-induced physical problems for undergraduate or graduate students in the field of coastal engineering and hydraulics, or for coastal engineers and coastal zone managers.
The second part consists of the author's results of 30 years’ scientific research on the progress of coastal sediment transport study. It is designed for graduate students pursuing advanced studies in coastal processes and for engineers and managers of coastal zone management. In terms of sediment transport study, the book covers not only coastal zone but also sediment production in river basin and river sediment transport to understand the present reason for coastal erosion. It is possible to understand the differences of the conditions of the countries on this problem.
Contents:
- Review of Fundamental Fluid Mechanics
- Basic Equations for Wave
Motion
- Wave-Induced Physical Phenomena
- Wave Transformation
- Surf Zone Dynamics
- Wind Waves
- Wave-Induced Currents
- Wave Forces on Structures
- Coastal Sediment Transport
- Beach Erosion and Beach Accretion
- Natural Disasters in Coastal Environment
Readership: Senior undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, academics
and engineers in coastal and ocean engineering.
| 300pp (approx.) |
Pub. date: Scheduled Fall 2008 |
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