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An investigation of breaker heights, shapes and pressures

An investigation of breaker heights, shapes and pressures
An investigation of breaker heights, shapes and pressures
The shape of breaking waves has a significant effect on wave impact pressures on vertical sea walls. In order to refine the results of previous researchers, a systematic study of breaker shapes and wave impact pressures on a vertical wall using a newly developed experimental technique, sequential flash photography, was conducted at Queen's University of Belfast. Assumptions, like the existence of a vertical flip-through jet or a parallel face impact, could not be confirmed. The maximum pressure was found to occur for plunging breakers and at Still Water Level (SWL), although high pressures can also occur for other breaker types above or below SWL.

breaking waves, breaker shape, wave loading, breaker classification, piv, impact pressure, vertical pressure distribution
0029-8018
57-79
Hull, Phillip
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Muller, Gerald
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Hull, Phillip
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Muller, Gerald
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Hull, Phillip and Muller, Gerald (2002) An investigation of breaker heights, shapes and pressures. Ocean Engineering, 29, 57-79. (doi:10.1016/S0029-8018(00)00075-5).

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The shape of breaking waves has a significant effect on wave impact pressures on vertical sea walls. In order to refine the results of previous researchers, a systematic study of breaker shapes and wave impact pressures on a vertical wall using a newly developed experimental technique, sequential flash photography, was conducted at Queen's University of Belfast. Assumptions, like the existence of a vertical flip-through jet or a parallel face impact, could not be confirmed. The maximum pressure was found to occur for plunging breakers and at Still Water Level (SWL), although high pressures can also occur for other breaker types above or below SWL.

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Published date: January 2002
Keywords: breaking waves, breaker shape, wave loading, breaker classification, piv, impact pressure, vertical pressure distribution

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Local EPrints ID: 184969
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/184969
ISSN: 0029-8018
PURE UUID: b905f3fb-4d27-42df-bcda-e485b77b0d31

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Date deposited: 18 May 2011 13:57
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 03:10

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Author: Phillip Hull
Author: Gerald Muller

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