Experimental study of the wave run-up along a vertical plate
| Project acronym: | HYIII-CEH-4 |
| Name of Group Leader: | Bernard MOLIN |
| User-Project Title: | Experimental study of the wave run-up along a vertical plate |
| Facility: | LDB |
| Proceedings TA Project: | Experimental study of the wave runup along a vertical plate |
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User Project Objectives:
Recent research work by our group has established that phenomena such as wave run-up along offshore structures or vertical breakwaters result from nonlinear (mostly tertiary, or third-order) interactions between the incoming waves and the reflected waves by the structure. These interactions can take place over large areas on the weather side, extending several dozens wavelengths or body dimensions in the upwave direction. To validate the theoretical and numerical models that we have developed, experimental data must be obtained in a large basin, so that the distance between the wavemaker and the body be very large as compared to the body dimension. Quality of the waves is also critical. In this view the CEHIPAR basin was the ideal facility. The planned experiments were to replicate tests done in a much smaller facility (BGO-First) where exiguity turned out to be a major drawback. In these tests the model was a simple vertical plate, 3 m long, attached to the side wall, submitted to regular waves with wavelengths in the range 0.8 – 2 m.