Journal of Tropical Oceanography ›› 2017, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (1): 95-105.doi: 10.11978/2016013CSTR: 32234.14.2016013

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Experimental study on changes of cross-shore beach profile by regular waves under the influence of mangroves

Changbo JIANG1,2, Zhe GUAN1, Jie CHEN1,2, Yu XIAO1,3, Qingyang GAO1, Yiqiu CUI1,4, Cheng CAO1   

  1. 1. School of Hydraulic Engineering, Changsha University of Science & Technology, Changsha 410114, China
    2. Key Laboratory of Water-Sediment Sciences and Water Disaster Prevention of Hunan Province, Changsha 410114, China
    3. Hunan Provincial Water Transportation Construction & Investment Group Co. Ltd, Changsha 410011, China
    4. China Architecture & Harbour Construction Co. Ltd, Shanghai 200433, China
  • Received:2016-01-28 Revised:2016-06-30 Online:2017-01-18 Published:2017-01-19
  • Supported by:
    Key Projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China (51239001);National Natural Science Foundation of China (51409022);Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department (13B130, YB2015B034);Program for Key Laboratory of Water Science and Engineering of Ministry of Water Resources (YK914013);Program for Ministry of Transport Key Laboratory of Port, Waterway and Sedimentation Engineering;Graduate Student Research Innovation Project of Hunan Province (CX2015B360);Application Basic Research Project of Ministry of Transport (2015319825080)

Abstract:

Mangroves are widely distributed in the coastal areas of South China, which can effectively reduce the damage by waves to the beach; therefore, it is significant to study the effect of the changes on the beach profile under the influence of regular waves. Based on the wave flume experiment, the PVC tubes are generally chosen to simulate mangroves, and cohesionless sand is selected to generate the beach whose combination slope is 1/10~1/20. The results of the experiment show that when there are mangroves, it has a large influence on the beach slope change under the action of regular waves; and the steepness of regular waves, as well as the distribution density and the arrangement of mangroves, are analyzed. Based on the experimental data, the relationships among the beach erosion scale, deposition scale, the maximum scour depth, the maximum deposition height, and the steepness of regular waves, the distribution density, the arrangement of the mangroves are established, whose relationship is an exponential function. The function reveals the relationship between the variation of beach profile and the hydrodynamic characteristics of regular waves, mangroves, the sediment particles, and the beach slope. With the introduction of the comprehensive coefficient of the plants, the characteristic value of beach erosion and deposition under a given regular wave is predicted, which provides a scientific basis for the construction of coastal protection engineering.

Key words: regular wave, mangrove, plant distribution density, plant coefficient of arrangement, variation of beach profile