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Coastal Engineering
Design
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Wave and Sediment Transport Modeling Services |
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Spectral Wave
Analyses
Wave Transformation
Simulations
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Shoreline
Change Predictions
Longshore Sediment Transport Rates
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Sediment Infilling Rates
Wave/Current
Interaction
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Applied Coastal personnel perform detailed
coastal processes analyses and numerical simulations of spectral wave
transformation and nearshore sediment transport to support engineering
design evaluations and project feasibility studies. Input spectral wave
conditions from offshore measurements or wave hindcast simulations
provide boundary parameters for propagating wave energy landward over
variable bathymetry using spectral wave models such as STWAVE, SWAN, and
REF/DIF S. Output model results provide input for nearshore current
models and the calculation of sediment transport rates. These numerical
modeling procedures are used to evaluate potential project alternatives
and the impacts of proposed engineering activities on physical
environmental processes.
Once existing wave and sediment transport processes
in a project area are understood, the impact of proposed engineering
activities (e.g., dredging at an offshore borrow site; placement of
beach fill) are determined within the context of natural variability
within the system. Applied Coastal personnel have conducted many wave
and sediment transport modeling projects along the east and Gulf coasts,
including environmental impact evaluations of sand mining offshore
Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, New Jersey, and New York. In addition,
wave modeling procedures are employed regularly to evaluate engineering
designs related to beach nourishment projects. Most importantly, model
results are always verified within the context of coastal process
measurements and historical data sets to gage the reliability of model
output.
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Representative Clients
Bourne Consulting Engineering, Gahagan & Bryant Associates, Inc., ENSR, MMS, Town of Plymouth, Parsons Brinkerhoff, Shiner Moseley and Associates, Bourne Consulting Engineering, Inc., Three Bays Preservation, Inc., Gahagan & Bryant Associates, Town of Chatham, CDM, Falmouth Conservation Commission
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