Numerical Test on the Impacts of Submerged Breakwaters for Different Design Parameters

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ABSTRACT Chen, Y.; Xu, Z., and Lee, D.-Y., 2017. Numerical test on the impacts of submerged breakwaters for different design parameters. In: Lee, J.L.; Griffiths, T.; Lotan, A.; Suh, K.-S., and Lee, J. (eds.), The 2nd International Water Safety Symposium. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 79, pp. 299–303. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. With the improvement of the living standards, the recreational use of the beach is gradually valued in China. There was a need of the development of artificial beach to meet the need of increased recreational use of the beach. Submerged breakwaters (SBW) is a widely used coastal protection measure, especially for the beach for tourist and water sports, which is constructed to reduce the wave condition to a required level to protect the beach from erosion and also to increase the recreational value of the beach. Understanding the impacts of the SBW on the transformation of the waves and the circulation induced by wave setup behind the SBW is important ...