No. 25 (1996), Conference Proceedings
No. 25 (1996)

MEASUREMENTS OF WAVE BREAKING IN THE UK COASTAL RESEARCH FACILITY

Conference Proceedings
Published 1996-01-29
Howard N. Southgate
HR Wallingford Ltd.
Stuart Stripling
HR Wallingford Ltd.
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wave breaking
breaking measurements
UK Coastal Research Facility

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MEASUREMENTS OF WAVE BREAKING IN THE UK COASTAL RESEARCH FACILITY. (1996). Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1(25). https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v25.%p
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Abstract

Many experiments have been carried out on wave breaking in the past, but these have mainly been for regular, normally-incident waves. This paper describes experiments in the UK Coastal Research Facility in which over a hundred separate tests were carried out, covering regular, random, normally-incident, angled and multidirectional waves. Measurements were made of wave parameters as the waves underwent breaking in shallow water on a 1:20 slope. Analysis of the data to determine the wave breaking criterion, y, for three random wave categories is presented.
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