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Phase-resolved analysis of velocity field structure and vorticity dynamics under colinear swell and wind-waves

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Coastal Engineering Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104736

Fabio Addona , Maria Clavero , Luca Chiapponi , Sandro Longo

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RoadRAT – A new framework to assess the probability of inundation, wave runup, and erosion impacting coastal roads

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Coastal Engineering Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104741

Caroline Hallin , Anna Adell , Björn Almström , Aart Kroon , Magnus Larson

{"title":"RoadRAT – A new framework to assess the probability of inundation, wave runup, and erosion impacting coastal roads","authors":"Caroline Hallin , Anna Adell , Björn Almström , Aart Kroon , Magnus Larson","doi":"10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104741","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104741","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper introduces a new framework – RoadRAT - to calculate the probability of inundation, wave runup, and storm erosion impacting coastal roads. Extreme value analysis is applied to annual maxima of observed and simulated still water level levels (SWL), total water levels (SWL + runup), and storm erosion volumes. The probability of impact on the road is derived both for the present conditions and for future conditions considering long-term evolution of the coastline in response to sea level rise and projected continuation of historical trends. RoadRAT is intended for screening at a regional scale (>100 km) to identify vulnerable road segments that need further attention. A case study was conducted on the south coast of Sweden to demonstrate the framework. The results indicate that the main coastal road has a low probability of impact under present conditions, but that it will increase in the future under changing climatic conditions. In 2150, which is the target year for the analysis, several kilometres of the road will be lost to erosion, and flooding and runup will frequently impact parts of the remaining road. In future applications, RoadRAT could be coupled with models that describe the consequences of inundation, wave runup, and storm erosion for road serviceability and transport.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50996,"journal":{"name":"Coastal Engineering","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 104741"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143593882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Submerged and emerged rigid vegetation impact on bedforms and sediment suspension under wave action

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Coastal Engineering Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104739

K. Ions , X. Wang , D.E. Reeve , N. Mori , H. Karunarathna

{"title":"Submerged and emerged rigid vegetation impact on bedforms and sediment suspension under wave action","authors":"K. Ions , X. Wang , D.E. Reeve , N. Mori , H. Karunarathna","doi":"10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104739","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104739","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A series of experiments were carried out in a laboratory wave flume to investigate the impact of coastal rigid vegetation on suspended sediment transport and the generation of bedforms for a range of wave conditions for both submerged and emerged vegetations. Rigid arrays of cylindrical wooden dowels were used as vegetation mimics on a sandy bed. Two vegetation densities were selected, representing dense and sparse vegetation meadows. Synchronised flow velocity and suspended sediment concentration measurements were performed using particle image velocimetry and an acoustic backscatter sensor. Seabed ripples were observed in all cases where the near-bed velocity exceeded the threshold of sediment motion. The near-bed velocity governed sediment suspension on both bare and vegetated sediment seabeds. Near-bed sediment concentration on densely vegetated seabeds was lower than that of bare seabeds under the same wave conditions. These observations highlight the importance of considering the role of vegetation in shaping seabed morphology and the resultant suspended sediment concentrations. Then, the near-bed sediment concentration formulae used on bare sediment beds are validated for use on vegetated seabeds.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50996,"journal":{"name":"Coastal Engineering","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 104739"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143593887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The wavefront shift method for bay beaches

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Coastal Engineering Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104740

Mariano Buccino, Sara Tuozzo, Mario Calabrese

{"title":"The wavefront shift method for bay beaches","authors":"Mariano Buccino, Sara Tuozzo, Mario Calabrese","doi":"10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104740","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104740","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Bay beaches, sheltered by one or more headlands, are predominant physiographic features along oceanic and sea coasts. Their distinctive planform is created through wave sheltering caused by diffraction, along with refraction wherever the indentation of the bay is large. The asymptotic scenario entailing no littoral drift along the bay is known as “static equilibrium”, and the shoreline contour associated with this long-term stable state is denoted as the Static Equilibrium Planform (SEP). SEP prediction is a crucial concept for engineering applications, as it serves to either check for the status of existing beaches or address erosion issues via headland control. The practical impact of this topic is reflected in the remarkable body of available literature. This article discusses a new SEP predictor, which focuses on wave diffraction as the primary driver shaping the bay. The approach, denoted as the Wavefront Shift Method (WSM), involves translating the diffracted wavefronts along the crestline of the incident waves. Diffracted wavefronts are obtained numerically by propagating regular waves with a Boussinesq model. Unlike other predictors, e.g. the parabolic equation, WSM does not rely on a mathematical formula established a priori; moreover, it features a clear connection to the physics of beach evolution. In 2021 the authors first introduced WSM for single-headland bays as an empirical result from their numerical investigation. This paper provides the method with a theoretical framework and extends it to include bays sheltered by two headlands. This extension is achieved by exploiting the Fraunhofer theory for the diffraction of light. The comparison with 20 natural bays along the Mediterranean coast indicates that WSM is a well-performing, easy-to-use approach with the potential to reduce, in some situations, the degree of subjectivism and complexity of the existing methods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50996,"journal":{"name":"Coastal Engineering","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 104740"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143600691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Designing modular, artificial reefs for both coastal defense and coral restoration

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Coastal Engineering Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104742

Benjamin K. Norris , Borja G. Reguero , Joseph Bartolai , Michael A. Yukish , Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos , Brian K. Haus , Gabriel Barajas Ojeda , Maria Maza , Javier L. Lara , Michael W. Beck

{"title":"Designing modular, artificial reefs for both coastal defense and coral restoration","authors":"Benjamin K. Norris , Borja G. Reguero , Joseph Bartolai , Michael A. Yukish , Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos , Brian K. Haus , Gabriel Barajas Ojeda , Maria Maza , Javier L. Lara , Michael W. Beck","doi":"10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104742","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104742","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Coastal flooding and erosion are growing issues for coastal communities as their severity continues to worsen with climate change. As a result, there is increasing interest in the use of nature-based engineering as a sustainable and cost-effective strategy for protecting many coastlines globally. Among these approaches, reef engineering aims to integrate both the physical and biological aspects of reef communities to attenuate incident wave energy while still maintaining ecological values. However, few examples currently exist on reef engineering for coastal defense due to the multidisciplinary challenge of constraining physical and biological interactions with artificial reefs. Here, we present the first design iteration of a novel artificial hybrid reef system that intends to provide both coastal defense benefits as well as refugia for corals to enable their future growth. To balance these performance objectives, the pyramidal low-crested reef designs developed here combine two hexagonal sub-units: SEAHIVE® and lattice with tunable porosity. The hydrodynamic performance of these sub-units was tested using a numerical wave tank (NWT), based on the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling suite OpenFOAM, to determine the best configuration of the sub-units for a given set of wave conditions, both as single reefs and as a three-row reef system. The goal was to produce a small subset of reef designs to be tested in a wave flume facility to support model calibration and future design iteration. The reef designs explored herein offer wave energy reduction values greater than 70%, consistent with natural coral reefs as well as other conventional submerged breakwater designs. Further, the highly porous sub-units provide further tunability of hydrodynamic performance when compared with traditional low-crested breakwaters.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50996,"journal":{"name":"Coastal Engineering","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 104742"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143636515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Quantifying compound coastal flooding effects in urban regions using a tightly coupled 1D–2D model explicitly resolving flood defense infrastructure

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Coastal Engineering Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104728

Boxiang Tang , Kees Nederhoff , T.W. Gallien

{"title":"Quantifying compound coastal flooding effects in urban regions using a tightly coupled 1D–2D model explicitly resolving flood defense infrastructure","authors":"Boxiang Tang , Kees Nederhoff , T.W. Gallien","doi":"10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104728","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104728","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Low-lying coastal areas are highly vulnerable to flooding hazards. High marine water levels may overflow seawalls, render the storm drain system inoperable, and promote pluvial and wave overtopping flooding. Complex interactions between various coastal flooding drivers (marine water levels, precipitation, waves) and urban infrastructure (i.e., the stormwater system, and seawalls) are characterized using a novel, tightly coupled hydrodynamic model. Flood extent field observations of tidal overflow, pluvial flooding, and overtopping flooding, along with storm drain system pressure sensor data are used to evaluate hydrodynamic model performance. High marine water levels, precipitation, and overtopping events are modeled and compared with validation data. Results suggest the hydrodynamic model explicitly resolving both 1D storm drain pipe flow and 2D overland flooding more accurately simulates compound flooding compared to typical 2D overland flow models. Nonlinear compound effects were resolved by comparing combined univariate flood impact to corresponding compound flood impact modeled within a tightly coupled 1D2D infrastructure-resolving model. Projected flood extents were <span><math><mo>∼</mo></math></span>50% greater when compound interactions were resolved. Compound effects vary with event type, event magnitude, and site characteristics. Critically, coastal adaptation strategies protecting against high embayment water levels such as elevating seawalls may exacerbate compound flooding effects in low-lying communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50996,"journal":{"name":"Coastal Engineering","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 104728"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143562226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Longitudinal and vertical evolution of wave-induced turbulence within vegetation 波浪诱发的植被内湍流的纵向和垂直演变

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Coastal Engineering Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104737

Yunshuo Cheng , Zhong Peng , Yuan Xu , Ying Zhao , Qing He

{"title":"Longitudinal and vertical evolution of wave-induced turbulence within vegetation","authors":"Yunshuo Cheng , Zhong Peng , Yuan Xu , Ying Zhao , Qing He","doi":"10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104737","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104737","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Salt marsh vegetation provides essential morphodynamic and ecological benefits in coastal environments, yet the dynamics of wave-induced turbulence within vegetation remain poorly understood. Laboratory experiments are carried out to reveal the longitudinal and vertical evolution of wave-induced turbulence within vegetation for both non-breaking and breaking waves. Data from non-breaking intermediate waves highlights a nonlinear behavior of the longitudinal turbulent intensity across the vegetation, especially with high stem densities. A modified model is developed to account for the competition between increased turbulence scaling and reduced local wave orbital velocity at the leading edge of vegetation. For breaking waves, bubble clouds in video records and measured turbulence intensity together quantify vegetation's crucial role in buffering the vertical evolution of wave-induced turbulence and consequently reducing near-bed turbulence. Findings are crucial for understanding vegetation's role in shaping coastal morphodynamics and maintaining ecosystem health, with broad implications for coastal management and restoration efforts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50996,"journal":{"name":"Coastal Engineering","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 104737"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143528984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The importance of waves in large-scale coastal compound flooding: A case study of Hurricane Florence (2018)

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Coastal Engineering Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104726

Tim W.B. Leijnse , Ap van Dongeren , Maarten van Ormondt , Roel de Goede , Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts

{"title":"The importance of waves in large-scale coastal compound flooding: A case study of Hurricane Florence (2018)","authors":"Tim W.B. Leijnse , Ap van Dongeren , Maarten van Ormondt , Roel de Goede , Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts","doi":"10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104726","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104726","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Wave-driven flooding is often neglected or included in an approximate way in large-scale flood hazard assessments and early warning systems, despite its significant contribution to coastal flood hazards. This study introduces a method to incorporate incident and infragravity wave processes into a fast compound flood model by extending the SFINCS software with the SnapWave stationary wave energy solver. This extension efficiently translates offshore incident and infragravity wave conditions to the nearshore, allowing for the estimation of incident-wave-induced setup and the resolution of wave runup and overtopping. A quadtree approach is employed to optimize the grid resolution for wave processes in the coastal zone.</div><div>The approach is validated for Hurricane Florence (2018) along the North and South Carolina coastline of the United States, where observed offshore wave heights reached 10 m. The results illustrate that the impact of the hurricane extended hundreds of kilometers beyond the landfall area due to waves, highlighting its importance as coastal flood driver. In 19% of the coastline analyzed, wave contributions surpassed all other flood drivers combined, with waves contributing to an additional flooded area of 226 km<sup>2</sup> and a flood volume of 62 million m<sup>3</sup>.</div><div>The study also indicates that simpler parameterized methods for including wave-induced setup can lead to significant discrepancies in modeled water depths. The computational efficiency of the extended SFINCS model allows for the simulation of 1,000 km of coastline with limited computational resources. Hereby the critical role of wave effects in coastal compound flood hazard assessments could be demonstrated.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50996,"journal":{"name":"Coastal Engineering","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 104726"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143552668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Corrigendum to “Remotely sensed short-crested breaking waves in a laboratory directional wave basin” [Coastal Eng. (183), April 2023, 104327]

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Coastal Engineering Pub Date : 2025-02-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104717

C. Baker , M. Moulton , M. Palmsten , K. Brodie , E. Nuss , C. Chickadel

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The thresholds of sediment resuspension within emergent vegetation under combined wave-current conditions – A flume experiment

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Coastal Engineering Pub Date : 2025-02-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104727

Thomas J. van Veelen , Heidi Nepf , Suzanne J.M.H. Hulscher , Bas W. Borsje

{"title":"The thresholds of sediment resuspension within emergent vegetation under combined wave-current conditions – A flume experiment","authors":"Thomas J. van Veelen , Heidi Nepf , Suzanne J.M.H. Hulscher , Bas W. Borsje","doi":"10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104727","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.coastaleng.2025.104727","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The threshold of resuspension can be described by a critical velocity. Salt marsh vegetation modifies the flow conditions such that the critical velocities for resuspension derived on bare beds no longer apply. Within vegetation canopies, the critical velocity for resuspension was previously shown to decrease under pure current and pure wave conditions. In this study, we experimentally investigated how emergent salt marsh vegetation affects resuspension under combined wave-current flows that are typical for intertidal coastlines. Emergent artificial vegetation canopies inspired by <em>Spartina Anglica</em> and fine noncohesive sediment were placed in a wave-current flume. We set a constant current and incrementally increased the wave height until resuspension was measured. We repeated this procedure with a bare bed, three stem densities, and for a range of wave-current combinations. The critical velocity for resuspension was significantly reduced by vegetation-induced turbulence. Turbulent vortices shed by the stems entrained sediment particles from the bed. The critical velocity for resuspension decreased by 35–64% compared to bare bed conditions, depending on a ratio between the current velocity and wave velocity amplitude. The critical velocity decreased the most under pure current flows and the least under pure wave conditions. Finally, with vegetation present, the stem density did not affect the threshold of resuspension for the range of densities tested here. Our results can be implemented into sediment transport models through an adjusted Shields parameter for vegetated beds, which can be used for the management of salt marshes and the design of interventions for nature-based coastal protection.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50996,"journal":{"name":"Coastal Engineering","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 104727"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143600690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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