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EPSRC Reference: GR/R83545/01
Title: Effect of shore-parallel breakwaters in tidal conditions on coastal morphology (LEACOST)
Principal Investigator: OConnor, Professor B
Other Investigators:
Pan, Professor S
Researcher Co-Investigators:
Project Partners:
CH2M Hill (Halcrow) H R Wallingford Ltd
Department: Civil Engineering
Organisation: University of Liverpool
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 August 2002 Ends: 31 July 2005 Value (£): 243,936
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Coastal & Waterway Engineering
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Environment Water
Related Grants:
GR/R83552/01
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The collaborative Project aims to improve understanding of interactive coastal processes and morphology changes produced by construction of shoreparallel breakwaters in UK tidal conditions. The Project will focus on modelling and measuring the hydrodynamics and morphogolical changes during storm-events. Use will be made of an existing Liverpool WD morphological computer model, which will be enhanced to include the effect of overtopping and reflective porous structures. Field data will be gathered from two typical (but different) embayments (one per winter season) at the Sea Palling in Norfolk, UK where 9 shore-parallel segmented breakwaters have resulted in the formation of low-water tombolos and salients, as well as impacts on the beaches down-drift. Existing data on waves, currents and transient bathymetric changes collected from a central embayment in the UKCRF by earlier EPSRC-sponsored research (LUPY Project) will also be used in the modelling component.
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