Number of Papers published in peer-reviewed journals: Number of Papers published in non peer-reviewed journals: Final Report: Efficient Multiscale Computation with Improved Momentum Flux Coupling via Operator-Splitting and Probabilistic Uncertainty Quantification Report Title Because of the significantly increased computational burden and difficulties with vertically-refined grids in very shall...

Coastal areas are usually the preferred place of habitation for human beings. Anthropogenic activities such as the construction of high-rise buildings and underground transport systems usually require extensive deep foundations and ground engineering works, which may unintentionally modify the coastal groundwater system because the construction materials of foundations are usually of low hydrau...

Coastal defence through wave farms J. Abanades, D. Greaves, G. Iglesias 1 Plymouth University, School of Marine Science and Engineering, Marine Building, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK The possibility of using wave farms for coastal defence warrants investigation because wave energy is poised to become a major renewable in many countries over the next decades. The fundamental question in th...

A primary attribute of coastal management in Florida is continued building in coastal flood zones, despite long-standing evidence of rising sea levels. Time is increasingly short to focus on more rigorous management policies that actualize long term adaptation to sea level rise. The real estate industry and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are among the primary economic and political drivers of...

Coastal defences have long been employed to halt or slow coastal erosion, and their impact on local sediment flux and ecology has been studied in detail through field research and numerical simulation. The nonlocal impact of a modified sediment flux regime on mesoscale erosion and accretion has received less attention. Morphological changes at this scale due to defending structures can be diffi...

This paper describes the development of a finite element model capable of representing a blast-resistant flexible window (flex-window) system developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)/Airbase Technologies Division. Computational fluid-structure interaction finite element simulations are used to develop an improved understanding of the manner in which fluid phenomena, such as air com...

This paper presents a parametric finite-difference scheme concerning the numerical solution of theone-dimensional Boussinesq-type set of equations, as they were introduced byPeregrine, in the case of wavesrelatively long with small amplitudes in water of constant depth. The method which is used can be considered asa generalization of the Crank-Nickolson method and it has been ap...

This special issue aims at exploring advanced numerical techniques for real-time prediction and optimal management in coastal hydraulic engineering [...]

Bayesian Inference has been widely applied with success in science and engineering. One of its main uses is the inference of model parameters in order to reconcile model outputs with evidence provided by measures. In this article we propose this application for coastal engineering problems. Specifically, it is proposed to infer the parameters of a numerical wave model used to downscale wave rea...

Breaking waves have ability to transport large quantities of sediment and significant impact on coastal structures morphology. Hence, modeling of wave breaking is an important subject in coastal and marine engineering. In this research, the periodic wave breaking process on a plane slope is studied experimentally and numerically. Laboratory experiments were conducted to record water surface ele...