FLOW DYNAMICS OF WAVES PROPAGATING OVER DIFFERENT PERMEABLE BEDS
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Keywords

permeable bed
porous medium
wave damping
friction factor

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Corvaro, S., Mancinelli, A., & Brocchini, M. (2017). FLOW DYNAMICS OF WAVES PROPAGATING OVER DIFFERENT PERMEABLE BEDS. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1(35), waves.35. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v35.waves.35

Abstract

The analysis of the hydrodynamics over porous media is of interest for many coastal engineering applications as the wave propagation over permeable structures or gravel beaches. The study of a boundary layer evolving over permeable beds is important to a better understanding of the interactions between the flow over and inside the porous medium. An experimental study has been performed to analyze the dynamics produced when waves propagate over two kinds of permeable beds: spheres (regular permeability) and natural stones. For comparative purposes the same analysis has been extended to two rough beds made, respectively, by a single layer of spheres and natural stones. We here focus on the correlation between the wave energy reduction induced by a porous bed and the flow resistance. An experimental law for the prediction of the friction factor is found by using the log-fit method in analogy to that reported in Dixen et al. (2008) for rough beds. Moreover, inspection of the turbulent velocity components allows one to evaluate the bottom shear stress. The latter analysis has been performed for different permeable beds (regular and irregular beds). A good agreement between the bottom shear stress behavior and the wave height attenuation over rough and permeable beds (Corvaro et al. 2010 and Corvaro et al. 2014a) has been observed.
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