Coastal engineering /
Dominic Reeve, Andrew Chadwick, and Christopher Fleming.
- Third edition.
- xxx, 512 pages
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Wave theory. Design wave specification. Coastal water level variations. Coastal transport processes. Coastal morphology: analysis, modelling and prediction. Design, reliability and risk. Field measurements and physical models. Conceptual and detailed design. Appendices: Summary of statistical concepts and terminology; Maximum likelihood estimation; Harmonic analysis results; Normal distribution tables.
Coastal engineering and management for final year undergraduate and MSc students. With coverage of conceptual and detailed design; wave overtopping; calculation of extreme wave conditions; structural reliability and probabilistic design; tidal analysis and calculation of amplitudes and phases of harmonic constituents from water level time series; harmonic analysis; and climate change.