Determination of design parameters of submerged breakwater by means of numeric simulation for their employment in beaches

Abstract

The necessity to implement solutions that guarantee the protection and recovery of the coastal area makes that the submerged breakwater employment is evaluated as a viable variant of application because these works contribute to the conservation of the natural and aesthetic conditions of the beaches, which is part of the tourist product that is marketed. However, the parameters that intervene in their functional design are not very well established, propitiating in many cases circulation patterns in the currents that contribute to the erosion and the degradation of the coast. The present work is part of the development of the Coastal and Marine Engineering System (SICOM) that carries out the Hydraulic Investigations Center of the Technological University of Havana, centered in to simulate so much the hydrodynamic changes as morphological that happen in the Cuban beaches before the presence of submerged breakwater, and in obtaining the design parameters for the employment of these works in the mitigation of the erosion of the beaches, using numeric models as predictive tools.