Observations of wave transformation over a fringing coral reef and the importance of low‐frequency waves and offshore water levels to runup, overwash, and coastal …

OM Cheriton, CD Storlazzi… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Many low‐lying tropical islands are susceptible to sea level rise and often subjected to
overwash and flooding during large wave events. To quantify wave dynamics and wave …

Nonhydrostatic and surfbeat model predictions of extreme wave run-up in fringing reef environments

CH Lashley, D Roelvink, A van Dongeren… - Coastal …, 2018 - Elsevier
The accurate prediction of extreme wave run-up is important for effective coastal
engineering design and coastal hazard management. While run-up processes on open …

Wave‐driven hydrodynamic processes over fringing reefs with varying slopes, depths, and roughness: Implications for coastal protection

ML Buckley, RJ Lowe, JE Hansen… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wave breaking on the steep fore‐reef slopes of shallow fringing reefs can be effective at
dissipating incident sea‐swell waves prior to reaching reef shorelines. However, wave setup …

Effects of reef morphology variations on wave processes over fringing reefs

Y Yao, Q Zhang, S Chen, Z Tang - Applied ocean research, 2019 - Elsevier
Many low-lying tropical and sub-tropical atolls fringed by coral reefs are susceptible to
coastal inundation during extreme wave events. Previous studies have shown that the …

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations of reef surf zone processes driven by plunging irregular waves

RJ Lowe, C Altomare, ML Buckley, RF da Silva… - Ocean Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
As waves interact with the slopes of coral reefs and other steep bathymetry profiles, plunging
breaking usually occurs where the free surface overturns and violent water motion is …

Modeling wave processes over fringing reefs with an excavation pit

Y Yao, JM Becker, MR Ford, MA Merrifield - Coastal Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
The excavation of reef-flat sand and aggregate for engineering projects is a common
practice on atoll islands, with attendant coastal management and hazard mitigation issues …

Physical and numerical modeling of infragravity wave generation and transformation on coral reef platforms

G Masselink, M Tuck, R McCall… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Wave transformation across reef platforms strongly controls sediment transport processes
and coral reef island morphodynamics with infragravity (IG) waves playing an important …

Study of irregular wave run-up over fringing reefs based on a shock-capturing Boussinesq model

Y Ning, W Liu, X Zhao, Y Zhang, Z Sun - Applied Ocean Research, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents the results of a parametric study of irregular wave run-up over fringing
reefs using the shock-capturing Boussinesq wave model Funwave-TVD to better understand …

Boussinesq modeling of spatial variability of infragravity waves on fringing reefs

SF Su, G Ma, TW Hsu - Ocean Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Spatial variations of infragravity waves on fringing reefs are studied using a fully nonlinear
Boussinesq equation model FUNWAVE-TVD. The effects of bottom roughness, forereef …

Experiment and RANS modeling of solitary wave impact on a vertical wall mounted on a reef flat

K Fang, L **ao, Z Liu, J Sun, P Dong, H Wu - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
A series of two-dimensional flume experiments were carried out to study turbulent bore
impact on the vertical wall mounted on a reef flat. Turbulent bores were generated by solitary …