Presentations Overview

A wave flume experiment of wave attenuation through cylinder arrays, mimicking wave damping through a coastal mangrove forest in the Mekong Delta, was performed within a wave flume at Delft University of Technology. A state-of-the-art numerical model mimicking the experiment was constructed in SWASH...

Coastal flooding from high surges and extreme waves induced by hurricanes and tsunamis significantly threatens low-elevated regions. Moreover, the sea level rise, derived from climate change, has resulted in shorelines advancing towards the land, exacerbating the flooding-induced damage in coastal c...

In the present study, a three-dimensional coupled numerical model is developed to investigate the excess pore pressure development around a monopile foundation and the accompanying changes in the effective stress of the seabed soil. In addition to the coupled hydrodynamic-geotechnical analyses, phys...

The deep-water commercial port to be built, object of this paper, is an island port which will be served by a sea access bridge supported by piles. In order to determine the hydrodynamic forces on the various piles of this bridge a three-stages methodology was set up. An analysis of the loads was fi...

The aim of the present study is to investigate the interaction between waves and vegetation at the blade scale. The primary objectives are two: first, to introduce a direct numerical technique that involves a two-way coupling between a fluid solver and a structural solver, and second, to present nov...

Live-bed scale models of estuaries have long been impossible due to unwanted scale effects. Especially generating tidal flows and sufficient sediment mobility as in estuaries proved challenging, in contrast with meandering and braided river scale experiments where gradient could be increased to obta...

SEABIM® is a patented scan to BIM process that can generate a reliable and complete 3D model of a rubble-mound breakwater precast protective layer (Xbloc®, Accropode™, Core-loc™ etc.). Using computer vision techniques, the known 3D shape of the Concrete Armour Units is detected in a high-resol...

Some coastal infrastructures (i.e. intakes, outfalls, gates) incorporate singular elements (meshes, nets or grids) which, through their interaction with the water flow, can produce large changes in the water level (upstream and downstream) and forces on them. In order to characterize both the head l...

In the design of physical model experiments in coastal engineering, it is common that the construction of a foreshore is necessary to obtain the desired wave conditions at a given location, usually close to a structure being tested. Since the construction of foreshores is labour intensive (and thus ...