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Wave runup on composite beaches and dynamic cobble berm revetments

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COASTAL ENGINEERING
卷 176, 期 -, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2022.104148

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Wave runup; Swash; Dynamic cobble berm revetment; Dynamic revetment; Composite beach; Wave reflection

资金

  1. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/N019237/1, EP/H040056/1]
  2. Waves in Shallow Water
  3. European Union [654110]
  4. Research England Global Challenges Research Fund
  5. Royal Academy of Engineering Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship
  6. EPSRC CDT in Water Informatics: Science and Engineering (WISE)
  7. University of Bordeaux [1024R-5030]
  8. U.S. Army Corp of Engineers [W912HZ192]
  9. California Department of Parks and Recreation, Natural Resources Division Oceanography Program [C19E0026]

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The effects of climate change, sea level rise, and overpopulation are causing increasing stress on coastal regions. This paper presents a new methodology for predicting wave runup on composite beaches and dynamic cobble berm revetments, based on high-resolution measurements and insights from field and laboratory experiments.
The effects of climate change and sea level rise, combined with overpopulation are leading to ever-increasing stress on coastal regions throughout the world. As a result, there is increased interest in sustainable and adaptable methods of coastal protection. Dynamic cobble berm revetments consist of a gravel berm installed close to the high tide shoreline on a sand beach and are designed to mimic naturally occurring composite beaches (dissipative sandy beaches with a gravel berm around the high tide shoreline). Existing approaches to predict wave runup on sand or pure gravel beaches have very poor skill for composite beaches and this restricts the ability of coastal engineers to assess flood risks at existing sites or design new protection structures. This paper presents high-resolution measurements of wave runup from five field and large-scale laboratory experiments investigating composite beaches and dynamic cobble berm revetments. These data demonstrated that as the swash zone transitions from the fronting sand beach to the gravel berm, the short-wave component of significant swash height rapidly increases and can dominate over the infragravity component. When the berm toe is submerged at high tide, it was found that wave runup is strongly controlled by the water depth at the toe of the gravel berm. This is due to the decoupling of the significant wave height at the berm toe from the offshore wave conditions due to the dissipative nature of the fronting sand beach. This insight, combined with new methods to predict wave setup and infragravity wave dissipation on composite beaches is used to develop the first composite beach/dynamic revetment-specific methodologies for predicting wave runup.

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