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Coastal defense systems based on the ‘Building with Nature’ principles: interdisciplinary project on coastal and ecology engineering and marine biology.

Salt marsh and seagrass meadow ecosystems with high ecological and economical values play an important role in dissipating energy from waves and currents. In this research we develop a pioneering 3D numerical and analytical model validated using experiments from the new state-of-the-art wave &
current tank and seawater flume in GreenBridge, to achieve new insights in the waves-currentvegetation interaction.

Date:1 Oct 2019 →  31 Oct 2020
Keywords:marine ecology, wave-current-seagrass interaction, wave height dissipation, Building-with-Nature coastal defence systems, wave height and flow velocities attenuation due to vegetation
Disciplines:Fluid mechanics and fluid dynamics, Hydraulic structures, Coastal and estuarine hydraulics