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.
A Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering, Physical Geography, Environmental Engineering/Science (including coastal subjects) and (Bachelor level) knowledge of physical coastal processes such as waves, tides, sediment transport is preferred.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of waves and tidesLearning objectives
Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- explain governing processes in coastal hydrodynamics and morphology
- assess processes related to salt intrusion and density currents;
- apply in practice their understanding of hydrodynamic and morphological processes in diverse coastal environments, such as reefs, mangroves and rocky coasts
- describe 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