Interaction between Waves and Maritime Structures

This collection grew out of a special issue of the journal Water devoted to how waves interact with maritime structures. Its deliberately wide scope brings together papers on several engineering problems, so it should be useful both to researchers and to engineers who work on real projects.

The core of the volume consists of studies on long-standing challenges in coastal design: how much water passes over conventional and unconventional coastal structures, the pressures waves exert on vertical walls, whether rubble mound breakwaters stay hydraulically stable, and how crown walls respond to wave action.

Alongside these, the book covers a range of other subjects. These include numerical solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations for two-phase flows, the scaling down of large maritime structures for testing in a physical laboratory, the mechanics of floating bodies, and numerical models of how coastlines change over time.