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COURSE
COASTAL ENGINEERING
COURSE CODE
ECW571
EXAMINATION
APRIL 2011
TIME
3 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
1.
2.
Answer ALL questions in the Answer Booklet. Start each answer on a new page.
3.
Do not bring any material into the examination room unless permission is given by the
invigilator.
4.
Please check to make sure that this examination pack consists of:
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QUESTION 1
a)
b)
Prevention is better than cure. Suggest some strategies to implement this approach
in coastal management. Provide relevant examples to support your answers.
(10 marks)
QUESTION 2
a)
b)
The air-sea temperature difference is 7.5C. Identify the type of wave generated in
both cases. Given: RL =1.0 andi? r =0.85.
(15 marks)
Hints: Uw = U0
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0.142
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^3600
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QUESTION 3
a)
An ocean wave train traveling with a period of 8.2 s is propagated shoreward over a
gently sloping sea bed from a depth of 75 m to a depth of 1.25 m. Calculate the wave
length, the wave celerity and the group celerity at both depths. Determine the
subsurface pressure at a point located 1.0 m below the still water level where the
water depth is 1.25 m and the wave height is 0.4 m. The relevant wave parameters
are given in Table Q3(a). The density of sea water is 1025 kg/m3.
(15 marks)
cosh kd
2kd
sinh2M
0.0110
0.0120
0.0130
0.04233
0.04426
0.04612
1.0356
1.0389
1.0423
0.5319
0.5562
0.5795
0.5574
0.5853
0.6125
0.7000
0.7100
0.7200
0.7002
0.7102
0.7202
40.72
43.35
46.15
8.800
8.925
9.050
3.314
3.757
4.258
d/
Table Q3(a)
Hints:p-pgr/Kz
b)
-pgz
where Kz =
cosh k(d + z)
and n =
cosh kd
2kd
1+sinh 2kd
A deep water wave has a period of 7.0 s and a height of 1.3 m travels towards the
shore. It is refracted in such a way that the distance between the wave orthogonal is
increased to 50% at a location where the depth of water is 4.28 m. Assume that there
is no energy loss, determine the wave height due to combined effect of shoaling and
refraction. Table Q3(b) provides the wave parameters required in the computation.
Comment on your results.
(15 marks)
d/
/L0
0.0550
0.0560
0.0570
Ikd
sinh 2kd
0.0993
0.1003
0.1013
1.2480
1.2610
1.2730
1.5980
1.6220
1.6460
Table Q3(b)
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Hints: -y = KRKs
where KR = f/
fs"/c
and ^s =
\
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QUESTION 4
a)
b)
Waves approach a beach with their crests orientated at an angle of 13 with the
shoreline during a storm. The wave height at the breaker line is 1.2 m. Determine
the potential longshore transport rate at the site in m3/hr. The average beach slope in
the surf "one is 0.02.
(10 marks)
Hint: U = 20.7m^jgHb
c)
sin2a h
d/
0.0280
0.0290
0.0300
kd
tanhM
0.06878
0.07007
0.07135
0.4322
0.4403
0.4483
0.4071
0.4138
0.4205
Table Q4
Hint:
yH'
KD{S-lycoiO
W =
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