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Ocean Wave Studies for Engineering Applications

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Oceans and Coastal Zones".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 7346

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Mariano Buccino

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Department of Civil, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy
Interests: wave energy converters; wave energy assessment; wave–structure interaction; physical modelling; numerical simulations
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Dr. Luca Martinelli

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Department ICEA, University of Padoa, Padua, Italy
Interests: wave–structure interaction, with particular focus on the impulsive loads applied by breaking waves; research and development of floating breakwaters and wave energy converters, including their mooring system; coastal flooding risk, coastal erosion, and the relative mitigation measures
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue (SI) focuses on oceanic and coastal engineering research with a clear and direct impact on the engineering field.

This SI is open to all studies related to offshore, port and coastal engineering, such as—but not limited to—breakwater design and upgrade, coastal morphodynamics, coastal protection, environmental monitoring of the coast and of the ocean, ocean energy harvesting devices.

You are invited to submit theoretical and experimental research papers that aim to verify, extend, and innovate the current design practices and the state of the art on topics of practical interest for the engineering community, providing improved lumped formulas that fill existing gaps, extended design charts, as well as new or improved methods. We encourage the use of example applications.

Case studies and review papers pointing out the lessons learned, i.e., what may be recommended as a model and what may be improved, are also welcome.

Prof. Dr. Mariano Buccino
Prof. Dr. Luca Martinelli
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • port engineering
  • coastal engineering
  • wave energy conversion
  • shore protection measures
  • structural response
  • functional response
  • geotechnical aspects
  • case study

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Semi-Analytical Model for the Evaluation of Shoreline Recession Due to Waves and Sea Level Rise
by Francesco Marini, Sara Corvaro, Stefania Rocchi, Carlo Lorenzoni and Alessandro Mancinelli
Water 2022, 14(8), 1305; https://doi.org/10.3390/w14081305 - 17 Apr 2022
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The climate change process is leading to an increase in the sea level and the storm intensity. The associated shoreline recession can damage coastal facilities and also beaches protected by submerged/emerged breakwaters whose defense action can become ineffective. The application of cross-shore numerical [...] Read more.
The climate change process is leading to an increase in the sea level and the storm intensity. The associated shoreline recession can damage coastal facilities and also beaches protected by submerged/emerged breakwaters whose defense action can become ineffective. The application of cross-shore numerical models does not allow the performance of long-term analyses. In this paper, a semi-analytical model for the evaluation of shoreline recession due to waves and sea-level rise for free and protected beaches is proposed. The model is an extension of the Dean’s approach in which some limitations on the beach profile are overcome and the effects of breakwaters on the wave height (wave transmission) and on the water level (piling-up) are considered. The model takes into account a wide range of parameters for wave, sea level, beach profile, and breakwater characteristics. Among the breakwater parameters, the freeboard and the berm width are found to mainly affect the shoreline recession. For submerged breakwaters, an optimal value of the freeboard can be computed depending on the sea level and the offshore wave characteristics. The results of the model are then used to find prediction relations of the shoreline recession, with r2 > 0.99, for both free and protected beaches, depending on the main hydrodynamic/geometrical characteristics. Full article
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Wave Hindcast in Enclosed Basins: Comparison among SWAN, STWAVE and CMS-Wave Models
by Chiara Favaretto, Luca Martinelli, Emma M. Philippine Vigneron and Piero Ruol
Water 2022, 14(7), 1087; https://doi.org/10.3390/w14071087 - 29 Mar 2022
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This paper highlights the issue of the model consistency for wave hindcasts in enclosed basins, such as lakes and lagoons. For these applications, the wind input mechanism is essential and the differences in the model approaches and available settings make it critical and [...] Read more.
This paper highlights the issue of the model consistency for wave hindcasts in enclosed basins, such as lakes and lagoons. For these applications, the wind input mechanism is essential and the differences in the model approaches and available settings make it critical and difficult for the users to comprehensively understand each of the model’s capabilities and limitations. Therefore, three freely accessible regional scale spectral wave models (SWAN, STWAVE, and CMS-Wave), using the Half and Full plane modes where available, are used for wave hindcast purposes in two locations of the Garda Lake (IT). Results achieved with default settings are compared and discussed. Significant differences are found showing that, unfortunately, specific calibration, which is, however, not possible in many practical cases, is essential for applications in enclosed basins. Full article
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Trigno River Mouth Evolution via Littoral Drift Rose
by Margherita Carmen Ciccaglione, Mariano Buccino, Gianluigi Di Paola, Sara Tuozzo and Mario Calabrese
Water 2021, 13(21), 2995; https://doi.org/10.3390/w13212995 - 23 Oct 2021
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A mid-term analysis of shoreline evolution was carried out in the present paper for the Trigno river mouth area (5.2 km), located in the northern part of the Molise coast region (southeast Italy). The littoral drift rose (LDR) concept was employed, coupled to [...] Read more.
A mid-term analysis of shoreline evolution was carried out in the present paper for the Trigno river mouth area (5.2 km), located in the northern part of the Molise coast region (southeast Italy). The littoral drift rose (LDR) concept was employed, coupled to the GENESIS one-line model, to produce numerical simulations. The LDR graph was used to define a single, time-invariant, “equivalent wave” component (EW), which was supposed to entirely rule the shoreline changes. Given the inherent bimodality affecting the Molise wave climate, EW could result not significant in forecasting shoreline evolution, since both a climate inversion and a time-varying diffusion extra effect are expected. These aspects, never investigated in the literature, are deepened in the present paper, with the main aims of firstly assessing the explanatory power of the LDR equivalent wave and its significance within a bimodal climate, and secondly checking the role of a time-varying diffusivity. Results confirmed the reliability of the EW concept, even within a bimodal climate. Moreover, the possible effect of a time-varying diffusion, which is expected with a large directional variability, produced insignificant results with respect to the EW. Full article
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