Numerical Models for Submerged Breakwaters: Coastal Hydrodynamics and Morphodynamics

Numerical Models for Submerged Breakwaters: Coastal Hydrodynamics and Morphodynamics discusses the practice of submerged breakwaters, an increasingly popular tool used as a coastal defense system because of their amenity and aesthetics as compared to common emerged beach protection measures.

The book is the perfect guide for experienced professionals who wish to keep abreast of the latest best practices or those who are entering the field and need a reference, explaining new and traditional numerical methodologies for designing submerged breakwaters and measuring their performance. In addition, the book provides case studies, examples, and practical methods for data selection and pre-processing, model setup, calibration, and analysis.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Artificial Neural Network Models
Chapter 3: Data Selection and Pre-processing
Chapter 4: Existing Design Tools
Chapter 5: Numerical Modeling Using ANNs
Chapter 6: Model Setup, Calibration and Analysis
Chapter 7: Case-Studies and Worked Out Examples