Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering: Recent submissions
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Confined-Crest Impact: The Influence of the Toe Berm on the Impulsive Forces
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The primary function of composite vertical breakwaters is to shield harbor basins from incoming waves and currents. To ensure high hydraulic efficiency, recurved parapets are commonly employed to mitigate the wave overtopping ... -
Observations of Primary Ship Waves at the Margins of a Confined Tidal River
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Primary waves produced by large ships in confined waterways can threaten the sustainability and safety of coastal regions near maritime shipping routes, but the present understanding and predictability of primary wave ... -
Developing Closed-Form Equations of Maximum Drag and Moment on Rigid Vegetation Stems in Fully Nonlinear Waves
(ASCE, 2024/05/01)Coastal wetlands act as natural buffers against wave energy and storm surges. In the course of energy dissipation, vegetation stems are exposed to wave action, which may lead to stem breakage. An integral component of wave ... -
Practical 2DV Modeling of Deposition and Erosion of Sand and Mud in Dredged Channels due to Currents and Waves
(ASCE, 2024/03/01)This paper presents an easy to operate time-dependent, two-dimensional vertical model for the simulation of sand and mud concentrations, transport, and morphodynamic bed evolution in conditions with combined currents and ... -
Periodic Fluctuations of Transport as a Determinant of Inland Waterway Shipping Competitiveness
(ASCE, 2024/03/01)Among the factors determining the competitiveness of transportation sectors, those associated with travel time play a crucial role. Constant availability of transportation services over time is a key factor. Inland waterway ... -
Spatiotemporal Scouring Processes around a Square Column on a Sloped Beach Induced by Tsunami Bores
(ASCE, 2024/05/01)Tsunamis continue to pose an existential threat to life and infrastructure in many coastal areas around the world. One of the risks associated with tsunamis is the formation of deep scour holes around critical infrastructure ... -
Influence of Belowground Biomass on Barrier-Island Evolution During Storms: A Computational Parameter Study
(ASCE, 2024/05/01)Barrier islands span 10% of the world’s coastlines and dominate along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts in the USA routinely exposed to storm surge. These islands serve as buffers between the open coast and the mainland, ... -
Experimental Study of Flow Characteristics and Geometry of Scour Hole around Cylindrical Piers Subject to Wave and Current
(ASCE, 2024/01/01)Scour is a significant contributing factor to bridge failures, and when a bridge fails, it totally or partially loses its serviceability, causing fatalities, delays in emergency transportation and evacuation efforts, and ... -
Comparison of the SIMAR-WANA, ERA-5, and Waverys Databases for Maritime Climate Estimations and the Implications of Coastal Protection Structures
(ASCE, 2024/01/01)Estimating maritime climate accurately is essential to ensure the safety of marine structures. The most reliable data are in situ measurements, but due to the lack of this kind of data in both time and space, other datasets, ... -
Relating Geotechnical Sediment Properties and Erodibility at a Sandy Beach
(ASCE, 2024/07/01)Geotechnical sediment properties, morphological change, and hydrodynamics were measured as part of the During Nearshore Event Experiment (DUNEX) in October 2021 at the sandy Atlantic side beach in Duck, North Carolina. In ... -
Ranking Ports by Vessel Demand for Depth
(ASCE, 2024/01/01)The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) traditionally uses two metrics to evaluate the maintenance of coastal navigation projects: tonnage at the associated port (representing relative importance) and the controlling depth ... -
Forecasting Sediment Accumulation in the Southwest Pass with Machine-Learning Models
(ASCE, 2024/03/01)Connecting the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico, the Southwest Pass (SWP) is one of the most highly utilized commercial waterways in the United States. Hard-to-predict accumulation of sediments in the SWP affects ... -
Tracking of Small Discrete Objects Submerged in Surf and Swash Zones on Sand Beaches
(ASCE, 2023/11/01)An experiment was conducted in a wave flume to measure the trajectories of 20 small objects (gravel and microplastics) in the surf and swash zones on an equilibrium beach and a nourished foreshore beach with erosion and ... -
Hydrodynamic Forces Acting on a Cylinder Towed in Muddy Environments
(ASCE, 11/1/2023 )The presence of natural mud in the seabed of waterways and ports has an impact on maritime traffic in many parts of the world. Previous research has shown that sailing safely through fluid mud is possible. However, the ... -
Loads on Driven Monopile Foundations due to Pore Pressures
(ASCE, 7/1/2023 1)The preferred foundation type for offshore wind is still monopile foundations due to the relative ease of design, manufacturing, and installation. The wave loads (between seabed and wave crest) on present-day monopile ... -
Generation of Linear Waves with Bottom Wave Makers Using Analytical
(ASCE, 9/1/2023 1)In this study, rectangular and triangular bottom waver makers were developed to -
Optimal Significant Wave Height Monitoring Network Identification via Empirical Orthogonal Function Analysis with QR Column Pivoting Algorithm
(ASCE, 11/1/2023 )Significant wave height (SWH) is a fundamental concept in marine-related applications, activities, and renewable wave energy. The sea state is characterized by the SWH, and real-time ocean operations suffer from missing ... -
A Data-Driven Approach to Hurricane Debris Modeling
(ASCE, 9/1/2023 1)The large amount of debris generated in the aftermath of hurricane and storm events can cause severe financial and logistical burdens to coastal communities. Existing debris estimation models mainly focus on wind-induced ... -
Impacts of Ship-Induced Waves along Shorelines during Flooding Events
(ASCE, 11/1/2023 )Ship-generated waves are often amplified onshore in confined seaways and are associated with several incidents worldwide. Few tools enable modeling the ship waves’ evolution through complex bathymetry. Here, we assess the ... -
Probabilistic Tsunami Damage Assessment for Structural Mitigation Policy Guidance
(ASCE, 9/1/2023 1)Some areas of the California coast have physical conditions—such as local bathymetry, topography, shoreline orientation, and other factors—that increase the risk for damage from tsunami inundation compared with other ...