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Title:NONLINEAR SURF ZONE WAVE PROPERTIES AS ESTIMATED FROM BOUSSINESQ MODELLING: RANDOM WAVES AND COMPLEX BATHYMETRIES
DOI No:10.1142/9789812709554_0031
Source:COASTAL ENGINEERING 2006 (pp 360-371)
Author(s):Rodrigo Cienfuegos
Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Vicuña Mackenna 4860, casilla 306, correo 221, Santiago de Chile, Chile

Eric Barthélemy
Laboratoire des Écoulements Géophysiques et Industriels, BP 53, 38041, Grenoble Cedex 9, France

Philippe Bonneton
Département de Géologie et d'Océanographie, Université de Bordeaux I, Av. des Facultés 33405, Talence, France

Xavier Gondran
Laboratoire des Écoulements Géophysiques et Industriels, BP 53, 38041, Grenoble Cedex 9, France

Abstract:The present work aims at investigating the ability of Boussinesq-type equations and breaking-wave parameterizations to reproduce nonlinear properties of surf zone waves. We compare results produced by two different breaking models : those proposed by Kennedy et al. (2000) and by Cienfuegos et al. (2005). Both breaking strategies are implemented in a fully nonlinear and weakly dispersive Boussinesq code (Cienfuegos et al., 2006a,b). In the first part we calibrate model parameters on the spilling regular wave experiment conducted by Ting and Kirby (1994). In the 2nd part, we apply the breaking Boussinesq models on a new laboratory experiment on random waves propagating over uneven bathymetries.
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