Coastal Engineering and Fluid–Structure Interactions
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Oceans and Coastal Zones".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 2078
Special Issue Editors
Interests: numerical models; hydrodynamics; wave dynamics; wave–current interaction; coastal circulation; physical modeling; ocean dynamics; water exchange; lagoons; coastal engineering
Interests: nonlinear water wave hydrodynamics; wave–structure interaction; water wave theory; fluid–solid interaction; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); coral reef hydrodynamics; tsunami dynamics; wave propagation model development
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Dear Colleagues,
Coastal engineers have designed and constructed protected structures to cope with coastal dynamics, including wave behavior, storm surges, sediment transport, erosion, and sea level changes. Therefore, understanding coastal hydrodynamic environments and fluid–structure interactions is an important issue in coastal engineering. The research topics in the field of coastal engineering include broad scopes such as: (1) coastal dynamic environments of winds, waves, currents, sea ice; (2) sediment transport in the changing morphology of coastal, estuarine, and offshore regions; (3) the technical and functional design of coastal and harbor structures; (4) fluid–structure interactions including conventional hard and nature-based soft structures; (5) innovations in research methods and techniques including mathematical and numerical modeling, laboratory and field observations, and experiments. This Special Issue invites papers including, but not limited to, the abovementioned topics.
- Coastal engineering;
- Offshore engineering;
- Polar engineering;
- Innovative marine structural design;
- Innovative analysis technology for coastal engineering;
- Extreme marine environments and their impacts;
- Wave–structure interaction/soil(sand)–structure interaction;
- Coastal zone disaster prevention and mitigation;
- The reliability and survivability of marine structures;
- The development of model testing technology.
- Numerical modeling in coastal zones;
- Coastal dynamics;
- Coastal hydrodynamics.
Prof. Dr. Miaohua Mao
Prof. Dr. Junliang Gao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- coastal engineering
- wave–structure interactions
- high-fidelity numerical modeling
- laboratory and field experiments
- mathmatical models
- harbors, coastal, and offshore structures
- nature-based solutions
- hydrodynamics
- wave loads
- wave overtopping
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