Print Email Facebook Twitter Nearshore circulation Title Nearshore circulation Author Battjes, J.A. Sobey, R.J. Stive, M.J.F. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 1990-01-01 Abstract Shelf circulation is driven primarily by wind- and tide-induced forces. It is laterally only weakly constrained so that the geostrophic (Coriolis) acceleration is manifest in the response. Nearshore circulation on the other hand is dominated by wave-induced forces associated with shallow-water. wave breaking and is confined to a relatively narrow shore-bounded area. For brevity and for clarity of presentation, only wave-induced nearshore circulation is considered in this chapter, with zero mean flow far offshore. The purpose of this chapter is to give a state-of-the-art review of the subject, rather than a presentation of recent research results. Emphasis is placed on the physics. Mathematical formulations of the most important relations are given, but solution techniques are only briefly referred to without analytical derivations or numerical algorithms. Subject wave actionlongshore currentnearshore processeswave driven currents To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c80fc653-291e-4501-870c-283607d9d55c Publisher Harvard University Press ISBN 9780674017399 Source Manuscript for "The Sea" The Sea, Volume 9: Ocean Engineering Science Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 1990 The Authors Files PDF Battjes88.pdf 1.2 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:c80fc653-291e-4501-870c-283607d9d55c/datastream/OBJ/view