LABORATORY MOBILE BED MODEL STUDIES ON EBB TIDAL SHOAL EVOLUTION

[摘要] Laboratory mobile bed experiments were conducted to study the ebb tidal shoal evolution process under storm wave conditions. An idealized inlet configuration was chosen for the experiment representing a typical median-sized inlet on the east coast of Florida, USA. Six different cases were tested including a natural inlet and a jettied inlet with different jetty length and jetty type. Formation of ebb tidal shoal was observed in all cases; the rate of growth and location of ebb tidal shoal were different for the cases. Inlet channel shoaling and beach erosion next to the inlet are far more severe in the case of natural inlet than that in the case of jettied inlet. In general, the established tidal shoal tends to grow during the ebb cycles and deteriorate during flood cycles. And partial removal of ebb tidal shoal has shown to increase downdrift beach erosion and reduce the rate of ebb shoal growth, though the rate of change of the mined case rapidly approached that of the case without mining.

[学科分类] 建筑学

[关键词] movable bed;bed model;ebb tide;tidal shoal;shoal evolution