ROUGHNESS FACTOR IN OVERTOPPING ESTIMATION
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Keywords

mound breakwater
overtopping
roughness factor
armor unit

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MEDINA, J. R., & MOLINES, J. (2017). ROUGHNESS FACTOR IN OVERTOPPING ESTIMATION. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1(35), structures.7. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v35.structures.7

Abstract

The roughness factor (γf) is a key variable to estimate wave overtopping discharge on mound breakwaters. In this study, the γf is re-calibrated using a dataset extracted from the CLASH database. Compared to previous roughness factors calibrated using less restrictive data, overtopping estimators with a few explanatory variables showed variations up to 15% in the 50% percentile of γf. On the contrary, the CLASH neural network overtopping predictor showed insignificant variations in the roughness factor, since it is less sensitive to the variability in the data used for calibration. The confidence interval width of the CLASH neural network was narrow compared to simple explicit overtopping estimators, given that it is less sensitive to the number of data used for calibration. The γf values used to estimate wave overtopping discharge should be carefully calibrated, especially when using simple empirical formulas.
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