Flow characteristics over coral reef

• Main Author: Ow, Wei Chen.
• Other Authors: Huang Zhenhua
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering::Water resources
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/16077
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Experiments done on porous mats that represent artificial coral reefs showed that wave set-up induced by wave breaking have a higher maximum set-up occurring when the smooth plane is in place representing a smothered reef-top. Different parameters such as water depth, wave height and frequency we...