This book can potentially serve as a comprehensive textbook for students pursuing this subject either as degree or an elective course. It covers all the fundamental physics behind the different phenomena taking place in the near shore regions and the coast as well as the various methods to estimate its impact. Basic knowledge of water wave mechanics is crucial in understanding the coastal processes taking place in the near shore. The assessment of incident forces due to wind, wave, tide, current etc. is important to evaluate the resultant impact they cause on the shoreline and structures.
This book emphasizes the importance of sediment dynamics by analyzing the sediment characteristics, the physics of its motion and movement, factors responsible for the fate of sediments etc. It also highlights the erosion problem which is most prevalent across the sandy coasts, additionally erosion combating methods and techniques are also described with real time field problems and their solutions.
A wide range of coastal structures and their design principles are included in this book in order to give the reader a holistic understanding to the readers. This book also includes the design challenges and introduces the reliable modeling tools and techniques, which is very useful for beginners working in this discipline.
Contents:IntroductionCharacteristics and Motion of SedimentsSediment TransportCoastal Erosion and Protection Measures Including Case StudiesRubble Mound StructuresWave Run-up and OvertoppingScour Around Marine StructuresDesign of Coastal StructuresPhysical ModellingNumerical Modelling
Readership: Students and researchers in coastal and ocean engineering. Coastal Hydrodynamics;Coastal Processes;Coastal Erosion and Protection;Design of Coastal Structures;Sediment Transpor;Coastal Erosion, Coastal Structures, Marine Structures0Key Features:The book is authored by experienced professors, who have undertaken extensive research in Coastal Engineering and have offered solutions to a variety of coastal engineering problems. The authors have carried out the signature studies during the post tsunami and also have prepared the master plan for tsunami mitigation measures for the two affected maritime states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala which remain as the basic documents adopted for planning. The authors are being actively involved in the industrial consultancy services for the past three decades in the field of Coastal EngineeringThis book aids students from other disciplines to understand the subject mainly through number field examplesReal-time coastal problems and their solutions are discussed to enhance the subject knowledge and hence will serve as a handbook to planners, decision makers as well as beginnersDesign principles for coastal structures are discussed in detailThe other books deals with basic physics of the behaviour of ocean waves and do not include a number of case studies for illustration purpose highlighting the coastal engineering practice
