Assessment of the Longshore Sediment Transport at Buarcos Beach (west Coast of Portugal) through Different Formulations
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This study applies some of the most practical longshore sand transport formulations and evaluates their adequacy to estimate the total (suspended and bed load) longshore sediment transport rate (LSTR) at Buarcos Beach, in the West coast of Portugal. The straightforward methodology here present is simple to apply and therefore useful to quickly obtain a first estimate of the littoral transport in coastal engineering studies. A sensitive analysis to the variation of hydrodynamic and morphologic parameters was performed. The most accurate prediction of the LSTR at Buarcos coastal region was obtained by the Kamphuis formulation derived in the last decade, which is recommended to be applied in similar hydrodynamic and morphologic conditions in the West coast of Portugal.
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