Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering: Recent submissions
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Development and Experimental Validation of a Lagrangian Particle-Tracking Model to Simulate Wave-Driven Transport of Coastal Driftwood
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Wood deposits on beaches can contribute to coastal ecosystem function. However, driftwood and debris mobilized by storm waves pose hazards to coastal communities, infrastructure, and valued assets, including sensitive ... -
Hydraulic Performance of Low-Crested and Emergent Breakwaters with Ecologically Designed Armor Units
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Eco-friendly armor units and coastal structures provide a sustainable alternative to traditional design by incorporating eco-enhancing aspects into the design process to enhance biodiversity in their vicinity. ECOncrete’s ... -
Multiphysics Coupling Using SPH for Coastal Structures Subject to Tsunami-Driven Hydrodynamic and Debris Impact Loads
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper investigates the behavior of a tsunami-like bore carrying debris impacting a structure, examining the variability of the debris impact forces simulated using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and assessing ... -
Numerical Investigation on the Hydrodynamics of Vertical Seawalls Defended by a Submerged Breakwater
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Submerged breakwaters are emerging as a viable solution to mitigate the adverse effects of increased wave action on coastal structures such as seawalls. This study undertook a comprehensive and rigorous numerical investigation ... -
Morphodynamical Response of Small Rivers to Large-Scale Waterway Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)With the development of inland navigation, small rivers have the demand for the construction of large-scale waterways. Taking the reach from Likou to Binlangtan of the Dongjiang River in China as an example, this paper ... -
Hydrodynamic Analysis for Mangrove Forests under Wave and Current Effects Using High-Order Phase-Resolving CutFEM
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper presents the implementation of a high-order phase-resolving cut finite-element method (CutFEM) to simulate the hydrodynamic features within an artificial mangrove forest caused by wave and current based on the ... -
Probabilistic Estimation of Primary Ship-Induced Wave Heights at Estuary Groins Using a Nonparametric Bayesian Network
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Rock groins in the Elbe Estuary are constructed to maintain proper water levels for navigation and for embankment erosion protection. At certain localities, significant damages to rock groins have been observed due to the ... -
Numerical Modeling of the Influence of Scour and Scour Protection on Monopile Dynamic Behavior
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Scour of seabed sediments can occur around offshore foundations. For monopile-supported offshore wind turbine structures, the reduction in foundation stiffness due to scour presents certain operational challenges. In cases ... -
Numerical Investigation on the Motion Dynamics of Submerged Gravity Anchors Exposed to Wave Action
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper presents a numerical modeling approach to analyze the dynamic response of gravity anchors subjected to waves at various submergence depths. The aim is to model stages of lowering during the installation process ... -
Investigation of Wave Power Conversion Efficiency and Hydrodynamic Characteristics of a Floating Twin-Hybrid Wave-Energy Device in Random Waves
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The potential advantages of wave-energy converters can be extended beyond their capability to produce clean and safe energy, including wave attenuation using hybrid devices. This study presents an experimental investigation ... -
Hydrodynamic Mechanisms and Pathways of Potential Navigation Channel Shoaling by Nearby Parallel Islands
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)As the demand for transcontinental commerce has increased over the past century, navigation channels have been maintained at increasingly greater depths to continue access of deep draft vessels to inland ports. Over time, ... -
Accurate Determination of Far-Field Source Terms of Barge Overflow Dredge Plumes Based on Near-Field Monitoring and Modeling
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study presents a comprehensive monitoring campaign combined with near-field computational fluid dynamics (CFD) plume dispersion simulations for the overflow plumes originating from a barge being filled by a cutter ... -
Experimental Investigation of Overflow on the Lee Side of River Groins due to Long-Period Primary Ship-Induced Waves Using Particle Image Velocimetry Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The passage of ships in confined waterways creates a stern wave that can overflow bank protection structures such as groins. This overflow, due to the long-period primary ship-induced waves, can be high in velocity, ... -
Application of a Consistent Nonlinear Mild-Slope Equation Model to Random Wave Propagation and Dissipation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)In the context of actual surface wave conditions, the wave field is represented as a set of complex fluctuations that randomly change in both time and space, commonly known as “random waves.” These random waves can be ... -
Advanced Method for Improving Verticality of Dynamically Installed Anchors during Free Fall in Water
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The verticality of a dynamically installed anchor (DIA) during free fall in water is vital for successful installation of the anchor within the seabed. Two lines, a deployment line and a mooring chain, are usually used to ... -
Simple Method to Introduce Artificial Damping in Oscillating Surge Wave Energy Converters under Regular Waves Considering Viscous Effects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The Morison equation is extensively employed to consider viscous effects in hydrodynamic investigations of diverse wave energy converters using the boundary element method (BEM). Nonetheless, linearizing the nonlinear drag ... -
Turbulent Flow Field and Scour Characteristics around Bridge Pier in Combined Wave and Current Conditions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This experimental study investigates the effect of surface waves that are superimposed on a unidirectional current around a bridge pier in a gravel bed, which employs particle image velocimetry (PIV). A comprehensive ... -
Reattachment Length of Flow at the Lee Side of a Vertical Spur Dike in an Open Channel
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Spur dikes are deployed to regulate the flow in an open channel for navigation and bank protection as well as protection of beaches against erosion. The spacing between spurs is a crucial design parameter. The reattachment ... -
Wake Field Interaction in 3D Tidal Turbine Arrays: Numerical Analysis for the Pentland Firth
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This study presents a methodology for applying the three-dimensional actuator disk-RANS technique in modeling tidal energy converters within a regional-scale simulation. Of particular interest are the robustness of the ... -
Simulation of Depth-Limited Breaking Waves in a 3D Fully Nonlinear Potential Flow Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Extending an earlier two-dimensional (2D) implementation, a novel method is introduced for both detecting the onset of wave breaking and simulating the resulting energy dissipation in limited water depth, in a three-dimensional ...