Dynamics of coastal systems / Job Dronkers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dronkers, J. J.

Series:

Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering

Advanced series on ocean engineering ; v. 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coast changes.

Coasts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (541 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dynamics of Coastal Systems is about the dynamic interaction between water motion and seabed topography, which affects the natural response of coastal systems to change in external conditions and to human interventions - from the scale of seabed ripples up to the scale of entire barrier and delta systems. The book highlights major concepts developed during the past 50 years for the description of current-topography, tide-topography and wave-topography interactions. It provides simple analytical tools and models for diagnosing and predicting coastal response to change, with references to a grea

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Preface; List of Symbols; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 What is this Book About?; 1.2 Why this Book?; 1.3 Who is this Book Intended for?; 1.4 How is this Book Organised?; 2 Morphodynamic Feedback; 2.1 Pattern Generation; 2.2 Time-Symmetry Breaking; 2.2.1 Wave Asymmetry; 2.2.2 Tidal Asymmetry; 2.3 Spatial Symmetry Breaking; 2.3.1 Morphodyanmic Feedback to Seabed Peturbation; 2.3.2 Stability; 2.4 Linear Stability Analysis; 2.4.1 Perturbation Growth Towards a Finite Amplitude; 2.5 Instability of a Two-Channel System; 2.5.1 History of the Rhine Delta

2.5.2 Principles of Channel Competition2.5.3 The Ameland-Reef Cycle; 2.6 How Does the Sea Shape the Land?; 3 Current-Topography Interaction; 3.1 Abstract; 3.2 Bed-Flow Interaction; 3.2.1 Flow Layers; 3.2.2 Sediment Characteristics; 3.2.3 Cohesive Sediment; 3.2.4 Sediment Transport; 3.2.5 Bed Evolution; 3.3 Dunes and Ripples; 3.3.1 Qualitative Description; 3.3.2 Feedback Mechanism; 3.3.3 The Dune Genesis Model of Engelund and Fredsoe; 3.3.4 Formation of Bottom Ripples; 3.3.5 Genesis of Antidunes; 3.3.6 Wave-Induced Ripples; 3.4 Sand Banks; 3.4.1 Qualitative Description; 3.4.2 Tidal Sand Ridges

3.4.3 Zimmerman's Qualitative Ridge Formation Model3.4.4 Huthnance's Analytic Ridge Formation Model; 3.4.5 Shoreface-Connected Ridges; 3.4.6 Trowbridge's Model for Shoreface-Connected Ridges; 3.5 Channel Bars and Meanders; 3.5.1 Laterally Bounded Flow; 3.5.2 Formation of Bars; 3.5.3 A Simple Model for Alternating-Bar Formation; 3.5.4 Channel Meandering; 3.6 Will Seabed Perturbations Always Grow?; 4 Tide-Topography Interaction; 4.1 Abstract; 4.2 Description of Tidal Inlets; 4.2.1 Origin and Evolution; 4.2.2 Barrier Tidal Inlets; 4.2.3 River Tidal Inlets

4.2.4 Comparsion of Barrier and River Inlet Morphology4.2.5 Other Inlet Types; 4.2.6 Critical Flow Strenght; 4.3 Tides; 4.3.1 Tide Generation; 4.3.2 Tide Propagation; 4.3.3 Tidal Asymmetry; 4.4 Tidal Propagation in a Few Selected Basins; 4.4.1 Seine; 4.4.2 Western Scheldt; 4.4.3 Rottendam Waterway and RHine Tidal River; 4.4.4 Eastern Scheldt Tidal Basin; 4.4.5 Comparison; 4.5 Equilibrium of River Tidal Inlets; 4.5.1 Residual Sediment Transport; 4.5.2 Equilibrium Inlet Morphology; 4.5.3 Other Phenomena Influencing Sediment Transport; 4.6 Equilibrium of Barrier Tidal Inlets

4.6.1 Equilibrium Morphology4.6.2 Morphodynamic Stability; 4.6.3 Tidal Basin Response to Change; 4.7 Transport of Fine Sediment; 4.7.1 Tidal Dispersion; 4.7.2 Esturaine Circulation; 4.7.3 Tidal Asymmetry; 5 Wave-Topography Interaction; 5.1 Abstract; 5.2 Morphodynamics of Sandy Coasts; 5.2.1 Morphology of the Sea-Land Transition Zone; 5.2.2 Wind Waves over a Shallow Seabed; 5.2.3 Response to Sea-Level Rise; 5.2.4 Large-Scale Coastal Behaviour; 5.2.5 Pattern Formation; 5.3 Wave Theory; 5.3.1 Linear Theory; 5.3.2 Wave Deformation; 5.3.3 Wave-Induced Residual Flow; 5.3.4 Longshore Transport

5.4 Shoreline Dynamics

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 486-511) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-92800-3

9786611928001

981-277-525-0