Dynamics of the Coastal Zone

• Main Author: Romano, Alessandro (auth)
• Other Authors: Postacchini, Matteo (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: History of engineering & technology; delft3d; downscaling; beach inundation; integral contravariant formulation; initial morphology; analytical and numerical modeling; morphodynamics; plunging breaker; wave skewness; beach equilibrium; time-dependent curvilinear coordinates; runup; dissipation; marine radar; swash; climate change; climate changes; spilling breaker; beach recovery; longshore transport; forced waves; bathymetry estimate; coherent events; small scale physical modelling; beach erosion; wave overtopping; friction coefficient; statistical methods; bound waves; three-dimensional model; surf zone; wave parameterization; laboratory experiments; submerged breakwaters; coastal region; numerical simulation; uncertainty analysis; wave-field estimate; morphodynamic modelling; wave spectra; wave shape; hydrodynamics; random waves; sediment transport; Nonlinear Shallow-Water Equations; shear plate; Long (infragravity) waves; Normalized Scalar Product; bed shear stress; swash zone; large-scale experiments; turbulence intensity; shoaling; Navier-Stokes equations
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The coastal zone is the host to many human activities, which have significantly increased in the last decades. However, sea level rise and more frequent storm events severely affect beaches and coastal structures, with negative consequences and dramatic impacts on coastal communities. These aspects add to typical coastal problems, like flooding and beach erosion, which already leading to large economic losses and human fatalities. Modeling is thus fundamental for an exhaustive understanding of the nearshore region in the present and future environment. Innovative tools and technologies may help to better understand coastal processes in terms of hydrodynamics, sediment transport, bed morphology, and their interaction with coastal structures. This book collects several contributions focusing on nearshore dynamics, and span among several time and spatial scales using both physical and numerical approaches. The aim is to describe the most recent advances in coastal dynamics.