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Longshore Submerged Wave Breaker for a Reflecting Beach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2015

S. R. Pudjaprasetya  and
Elis Khatizah
S. R. Pudjaprasetya*
Affiliation:
Industrial and Financial Mathematics Research Group, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Jalan Ganesha 10, Bandung, Indonesia, 40132
Elis Khatizah*
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia
*
Corresponding author. Email: sr_pudjap@math.itb.ac.id
Corresponding author. Email: elis.kh@gmail.com
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Abstract

This paper considers the effect of a hard-wall beach on the downstream side of submerged parallel bars in a breakwater. In previous research, it was assumed that the beach can absorb all of the transmitted wave energy, when an optimal dimension for a submerged parallel bar is obtained and the wave amplitude is reduced as more bars are installed. However, for a hard-wall beach there are waves reflected from the beach that change the long-term wave interaction. We adopt the linear shallow water equations in Riemann invariant form and use the method of characteristics, in a procedure applicable to various formations of submerged rectangular bars. The distance from the parallel bar (or bars) to the beach determines the phase differences between right running waves in the beach basin and whether they superpose destructively or constructively before hitting the beach, to define the safest and the most dangerous cases. Our numerical calculations for one bar, two bars and for periodic rectangular bars confirm the analytical formulae obtained.

Keywords

65M2574J2035L05Method of characteristicssubmerged parallel wave barsshallow water equations
Type
Research Article
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East Asian Journal on Applied Mathematics , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , February 2012 , pp. 47 - 58
Copyright
Copyright © Global-Science Press 2012

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