COASTS AND ESTUARIES: MANAGEMENT AND ENGINEERING

Coastlines, like many things around us, are constantly evolving. Keeping pace with the changes and their development is necessary to ensure their stability and to maintain eco-equilibrium for nearshore hydrodynamics and morphodynamics. Supported with field measurements for model validation, several numerical and analytical tools are available to us to understand the physical processes in the vicinity of these water bodies.

This book encompasses the engineering principles involved in field data observation, measurement, collection, and processing; the prediction of wave climate and sediment transport using measured field data; numerical modelling involving calibration and validation of the hydrodynamic and morphodynamic processes; and the study of the underlying physical processes and the application of sustainable engineering measures to combat coast- and estuary-related problems.

The book has three sections: The first section is an elaboration on the need for and framework of the existing management and engineering notions. The second section details the measurement of the various parameters such as wave climate (offshore and nearshore), shoreline changes, beach profile variation, and sediment transport rates. The third section describes the aspects of wave prediction to arrive at design characteristics and modelling of the hydrodynamic and morphodynamic processes along open coasts and tidal inlets.

This book is designed to benefit students pursuing coastal engineering as their field of specialization. It could also serve as a guidebook to engineers, planners, and decision makers working in the fields of coastal, estuarine, and harbour engineering, governmental and private agencies that plan the financial outlay for coastal development projects, and private consultants dealing with maritime hydraulics.

Contents:

• Preface
• About the Authors
• Acknowledgments
• CMIS — Need and Framework:
  • Management and Engineering of Coasts and Estuaries: An Overview
  • Sustainable Hard and Soft Measures for Coastal Protection
  • Coastal and Marine Data Information System for Maritime Spatial Planning
• Observation of Coastal Environment:
  • Data Analysis Methods and Significance
  • Offshore and Nearshore Wave Measurement Techniques
  • Morphodynamic Observations in Coastal Areas
  • Shoreline Change Monitoring Techniques: Past to Present
  • Beach Profile Changes Near the Confluence of Estuary and Ocean
  • Variation of Sediment Characteristics Along an Open Coast and Near an Estuary
• Modelling, Calibration and Validation:
  • Wind-Wave Prediction and Design Wave Climate
  • Wave-Induced Sediment Transport Through Measured Wave Characteristics
  • Numerical Modelling of Tidal Inlet Dynamics
• Index

Readership: Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, planners, and design engineers dealing with coastal morphology, maritime hydraulics and sustainable development along coasts.

Key Features:

• This textbook comprehensively covers several important topics related in the field of coastal engineering
• It provides information on the techniques to measure the different parameters dictating the stability of shorelines towards the conservation of the beach and sustainable development along the coast
• It can also serve as a guide book to engineers, planners and decision makers working in the field of coastal, estuarine and harbor engineering, who were not essentially educated in the same field and hence lack experience or exposure to the various design and implementation challenges