COASTAL AND ESTUARINE PROCESSES: 29 (Advanced Series On Ocean Engineering) - Hardcover

NIELSEN PETER

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9812837116 ISBN 13: 9789812837110

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

This book is an introductory treatment to coastal and estuarine processes for earth scientists or engineers. Suitable for a first course on the subject, it covers water waves, surf zone hydrodynamics, tides in oceans and estuaries, storm surges, estuarine mixing, basic sediment transport, coastal morphodynamics and coastal groundwater dynamics. The book contains a substantial amount of new material. For example, the explicit, analytical treatment of transient, forced long waves strongly enhances the discussion on tsunami, storm surges and surf beat. The treatment of turbulent mixing includes finite mixing length effects, which provide an explanation for differential diffusion of different sediment sizes in suspension. The recently discovered effects of acceleration skewness and boundary layer streaming are also included in the basic sediment transport models. In addition, the treatment of beach groundwater dynamics: The mechanisms by which waves as well as tides drive groundwater motion, builds the link between the previously unconnected fields of coastal hydraulics and regional groundwater modeling. To serve as an effective reference book for professionals, the book is fully indexed and comprehensively cross referenced.

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Review

The book is intended for students of civil or environmental engineering, and earth or environmental sciences, but practising professionals will find it useful as a handbook also. The author has a very typical, off main stream approach to analyze and describe relevant processes. Whether it concerns waves, nearshore hydrodynamics or estuarine hydraulics Peter Nielsen finds his personal, extremely instructive way to present solutions that are providing practical insight for everyone interested in coastal and estuarine processes. The final chapter on ground water dynamics addresses an issue that receives too little attention. In short, this book should be within hand reach on your handbook shelf. --Marcel Stive, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 9812837116
• ISBN 13: 9789812837110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 360