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An investigation of breaker heights, shapes and pressures
Phillip Hull,Gerald Müller +1 more
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In this paper, a systematic study of breaker shapes and wave impact pressures on a vertical wall using a newly developed experimental technique, sequential flash photography, was conducted at Queen's University of Belfast.About:
This article is published in Ocean Engineering.The article was published on 2002-01-01. It has received 90 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Breaking wave.read more
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Violent breaking wave impacts. Part 1: Results from large-scale regular wave tests on vertical and sloping walls
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of entrained and entrapped air on wave impacts are investigated and the characteristics of the impacts depend on the breaker conditions and four different types of impact are identified and discussed.
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Breaking wave loads at vertical seawalls and breakwaters
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present recent advances in knowledge on wave loads, based on experimental work carried out in the CIEM/LIM large flume at Barcelona within the framework of the VOWS (Violent Overtopping by Waves at Seawalls) project.
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Wave impact loads: The role of the flip-through
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of waves upon a vertical, rigid wall during sloshing is analyzed with specific focus on the modes that lead to the generation of a flip-through.
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Tsunami wave loading on coastal houses: a model approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the impact of a tsunami wave on a typical coastal house with that on a new ‘tsunami resistant’ design developed in the USA and now built in Sri Lanka.
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Evolution of the air cavity during a depressurized wave impact. I. The kinematic flow field
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of the ambient pressure on wave impact events in depressurized environments was investigated. But the authors focused on the topological and kinematic aspects of the wave impact and its evolution toward collapse into a mixture of water and air bubbles.
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Wave impact pressure on vertical walls under breaking waves of various types
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the physics and characteristics of impact pressure due to collisions of breaking waves against a vertical wall and found that when a small amount of air is entrapped between the breaking wave and the wall at the collision, the impact pressure increases considerably.
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New wave pressure formulae for composite breakwaters
TL;DR: In this paper, a wave pressure formulae for the whole ranges of wave action from non-breaking to post-breaking waves with smooth transition between them is proposed. But the proposed wave pressure is not suitable for the case of non-sliding breakwaters.
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Classification of breaking wave loads on vertical structures
TL;DR: In this paper, a wave flume model was developed for wave breaking and breaker type classification in the presence of vertical structures and the corresponding impact loads (pressure, pressure distribution, and total forces) were described.
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Computations of overturning waves
TL;DR: In this article, the numerical method of Longuet-Higgins & Cokelet (1976) was extended to account for a horizontal bottom contour, and used to investigate breaking waves in water of finite depth.