88296 - Coastal and Marine Fluid Dynamics

Academic Year 2024/2025

Learning outcomes

The course will introduce and describe the processes that characterize the oceanic environment, as wind, tide, wave and currents, and their loads and interaction with the structures. In particular the student will be able to analyze the sea conditions (waves, currents).

Course contents

WAVE PREDICTION

PLANNING ANALYSIS

STRUCTURAL DESIGN:

WAVE CHARACTERISTICS,

  WAVE RUNUP, OVERTOPPING, TRANSMISSION

WAVE FORCES,

  REVETMENTS STABILITY,

  IMPACT AND EARTH FORCES.

PRELIMINARY DESIGN OF CASE STUDY

Readings/Bibliography

SHORE PROTECTION MANUAL - U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS

Teaching methods

CLASSROOM LECTURES

Assessment methods

ASSIGNMENTS DURING THE COURSE

Office hours

See the website of Alberto Marinelli

See the website of Renata Archetti