Application of EurOtop to Improve Simulations of Coastal Inundations due to Wave Overtopping

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ABSTRACT Lee, H.Y. and Suh, S.W., 2016. Application of EurOtop to improve simulations of coastal inundations due to wave overtopping. In: Vila-Concejo, A.; Bruce, E.; Kennedy, D.M., and McCarroll, R.J. (eds.), Proceedings of the 14th International Coastal Symposium (Sydney, Australia). Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue, No. 75, pp. 1377 - 1381. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. To simulate wave-induced overtopping on coastal dikes, a method has been proposed by incorporating the empirical formulas of EurOtop into the storm surge model ADCIRC+SWAN. This approach was found to be efficient and reasonably acceptable through the model validation and sensitivity tests performed on an idealized basin using a hypothetical storm onslaught even under the assumption of a gradually varied flow for a small value of overtopped volume. The hindcasting inundation simulation results on a real case at the Busan coast, Korea, during the typhoon Maemi in 2003 showed quite a similar pattern of inundation area ...