Abstract: A fully implicit finite‐difference, N‐line numerical model is developed to predict bathymetric changes in the vicinity of coastal structures. The wave field transformation includes refraction, shoaling, and diffraction. ...

Abstract: Various concerns of beach and nearshore survey accuracy including methodologies and equipment are addressed. First, four types of horizontal distance measurement apparatus (survey tape, infrared apparatus, microwave and ...

Abstract: A simplified analytic investigation of the local suspended sediment transport in the onshore‐offshore mode is performed, and is then adapted for computer solution to model beach profile evolution. The transport scheme ...

Abstract: Guidance regarding equilibrium beach profiles has been well established, although limited knowledge exists regarding the spatial and temporal variability of the equilibrium beach profile parameter for engineering usage, ...

Abstract: A simple analytical solution is presented for approximating the time‐dependent beach‐profile response to severe storms. This solution is in the form of a convolution integral involving a time‐varying erosion‐forcing function ...

Abstract: Beach nourishment, placed along a seawalled shoreline, can exhibit a markedly different behavior than projects on shorelines with adequate compatible sands to transport. The most striking effects of engineering significance ...

Abstract: Field data from Perdido Key, Florida, describing the response of an evolving beach nourishment project and the causative forces are analyzed in terms of sediment-transport rates and gradients. Numerical models for planform ...

Abstract: Long waves coupled to and forced by groups of primary waves in water of uniform, but arbitrary depth are investigated. Stream function wave theory is used to represent the long waves, which are driven by a virtual pressure ...