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The city of Ostend (Oostende) is situated centrally along the Belgian North Sea coast. The low-lying city centre is located very close to the shore. The shoreline consists of a sandy beach and a smooth impermeable sea dike. In 2002-2003 it was concluded that the risk of flooding of Ostend was critically high. As provisional solution, the beach was nourished in April 2004. The wave propagation on the beach is monitored with 3 different wave ...

In Ostend a field overtopping tank has been constructed on the eastern harbour breakwater. As the crest level of the breakwater is rather low compared to the mean water level, wave overtopping over the breakwater occurs quite frequently. By measuring instant water level into the overtopping tank, it is possible to determine the volume of water overtopping the breakwater. Mean overtopping discharge as well as individual overtopping volumes per ...

The Ostend Company (1722-1731) is a symbol of present-day Belgium’s strangling by European Great Power politics in the Ancien Régime, and more specifically of the limitations imposed on the Southern Netherlands by the Dutch Republic in 1648. The present contribution analyses the right of Emperor Charles VI to send out ships to the East Indies. Pamphlets by Abraham Westerveen and Jean Barbeyrac, argued for the exclusion of the Southern ...

Taking the source material of the Ostend Company's 18th century maritime trading activities into China and Bengal as a vantage point, this article explores its potential for a comparative history on cultural interaction in the Indian Ocean world. It compares how agents from this Company engaged in cultural interaction as a prerequisite for further economic interaction. Beyond a colonial or econocentric approach, it takes an anthropological ...

© 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, London. The new Coastal and Ocean Basin (COB) at the Greenbridge Science Park in Ostend, Belgium is under design. The laboratory will provide a versatile facility that will make a wide range of testing possible, including the ability to generate waves in combination with currents and wind at a large range of model scales. The facility is part of the Gen4Wave project on offshore renewable energy and coastal ...

The Ostend Company (1722-1731) is a symbol of present-day BelgiumU+2019s strangling by European Great Power politics in the Ancien Régime, and more specifically of the limitations imposed on the Southern Netherlands by the Dutch Republic in 1648. The present contribution analyses the right of Emperor Charles VI to send out ships to the East Indies. Pamphlets by Abraham Westerveen and Jean Barbeyrac, argued for the exclusion of ...

'Raoul Servais. The Wizard of Ostend. Commitment - Challenge - Recognition'