Journal
JOURNAL OF HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
Volume 136, Issue 4, Pages 222-233Publisher
ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0000167
Keywords
Vegetation; Wave attenuation; Wave spectra; Erosion; Lakes; Environmental engineering
Funding
- Kungliga Fysiografiska Sallskapet
- Ake och Greta Lissheds Stiftelse
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Wave damping in vegetation in shallow lakes reduces resuspension and thereby improves the light climate and decreases nutrient recycling. In this study, wave transformation in reed (Phragmites australis) was measured in a shallow lake. Theoretical models of wave height decay, based on linear wave theory, and transformation of the probability density function (PDF), using a wave-by-wave approach, were developed and compared to the collected data. Field data showed an average decrease in wave height of 4-5% m(-1) within the first 5-14 m of the vegetation. Incident root-mean-square wave height was 1-8 cm. A species-specific drag coefficient C-D was found to be about 9 (most probable range: 3-25). C-D showed little correlation with a Reynolds number or a Keulegan-Carpenter number. The PDF for the wave heights did not change significantly, but for longer distances into the vegetation and higher waves it tended to be more similar to the developed transformed distribution than to a Rayleigh distribution. Relationships developed in this study can be employed for management purposes to reduce resuspension and erosion.
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