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Experimental Study of Longshore Currents on a Plane Beach

C. J. Galvin / P. S. Eagleson

This investigation deals with experimental description of longshore currents and analytical prediction of longshore current velocity. The experimental phase includes measurements, under controlled laboratory conditions, of phenomena associated with longshore currents flowing on a smooth plane beach. The analytical phase includes development of an empirical relation between longshore current velocity and wave conditions at breaking, an order-of-magnitude analysis of energy in the surf zone, and an examination of equations of motion for longshore currents. The empirical relation for predicting approximate value of mean velocity of uniform longshore currents agrees with some sets of field and laboratory data. (Author)

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Experimental Study of Longshore Currents on a Plane Beach

C. J. Galvin / P. S. Eagleson

This investigation deals with experimental description of longshore currents and analytical prediction of longshore current velocity. The experimental phase includes measurements, under controlled laboratory conditions, of phenomena associated with longshore currents flowing on a smooth plane beach. The analytical phase includes development of an empirical relation between longshore current velocity and wave conditions at breaking, an order-of-magnitude analysis of energy in the surf zone, and an examination of equations of motion for longshore currents. The empirical relation for predicting approximate value of mean velocity of uniform longshore currents agrees with some sets of field and laboratory data. (Author)

Experimental Study of Longshore Currents on a Plane Beach

C. J. Galvin / P. S. Eagleson

This investigation deals with experimental description of longshore currents and analytical prediction of longshore current velocity. The experimental phase includes measurements, under controlled laboratory conditions, of phenomena associated with longshore currents flowing on a smooth plane beach. The analytical phase includes development of an empirical relation between longshore current velocity and wave conditions at breaking, an order-of-magnitude analysis of energy in the surf zone, and an examination of equations of motion for longshore currents. The empirical relation for predicting approximate value of mean velocity of uniform longshore currents agrees with some sets of field and laboratory data. (Author)

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Title:

Experimental Study of Longshore Currents on a Plane Beach

Contributors:

C. J. Galvin (author) / P. S. Eagleson (author)

Publication date:

1965

Size:

2 pages

Type of media:

Report

Type of material:

No indication

Language:

English

Keywords:

Beaches , Experimental data , Transport properties , Sedimentation , Hydrodynamics , Breakwaters , Ocean currents , Longshore currents

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