Abstract
Building hydraulic structures on reef-top can make a huge impact to hydrodynamic environment of deep-sea coral reef. The influences of vertical-wall structure on monochromatic wave transformation characteristics over the deep-sea coral reefs are studied by two-dimensional laboratory experiments. Wave surface, wave height and wave set-up on the reef-top are measured under various submerged depths and incident wave conditions. The effects of vertical-wall structure on the hydrodynamic processes are studied, the experimental results are also compared with former research results. Including mass transport and the nonlinearity of wave breaking, Gourlay’s theoretical relationship between the set-up and the submergence on the reef-top is corrected. A good agreement between experimental results and corrected theoretical relationship is obtained.
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