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Introduction to nearshore hydrodynamics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Svendsen, Ib A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2006]
Series:Advanced series on ocean engineering ; v. 24.
Subjects:
Water waves.
Coasts.
Hydrodynamics.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Hydrodynamic background
  • Linear waves
  • Energy blanace in the nearshore region
  • Properties of breaking waves
  • Wave models based on linear wave theory
  • Nonlinear waves: analysis of parameters
  • Stokes wave theory
  • Long wave theory
  • Boundary layers
  • Nearshore circulation
  • Cross-shore circulation and undertow
  • Quasi-3D nearshore circulation models
  • Other newarshore flow phenomena.