Coastal Systems
For whom?
This course is useful for researchers and engineers dealing with modeling and analysis of coastal processes. Also the engineers involved in design of coastal protections can benefit from the insight of coastal processes provided in this short course.
Dates, Fee, ECTS
Start: 11 February 2019
End: 01 March 2019
ECTS credit points: 5
Deadline IHE application: 10 January 2019 - 23.59 (CET)
Course fee: € 2850
VAT is not included in the course fee
Learning objectives
Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- understand the governing processes in coastal hydrodynamics and morphology
- assess processes related to salt intrusion and density currents;
- apply understanding of hydrodynamic and morphological processes in diverse coastal environments, such as reefs, mangroves and rocky coasts
- Understand estuarine morphological processes
Course content
In this course the following topics will be discussed:
- Coastal Hydrodynamics
- Sediment transport by currents plus waves
- Sediment balance equation
- Sedimentation of navigation channels
- Current-induced scour around breakwaters
- Formation of channels in deltas and tidal inlets
- Transverse and longshore sand transport under the influence of waves and currents,
- Modern longshore transport formulae and coastline computations
- Analytical formulae
- Background of mathematical models
- Introduction to various hard protection methods (groins, artificial headlands ,offshore breakwaters)
- Main system characteristics of the world’s important coastal lowland environments (mangroves, beach/dunes, estuaries, wetlands)
Lecturers
- Prof. Dano Roelvink
- Rosh Ranasinghe
- Frank van der Meulen
- Mick van der Wegen