D.G. Hamilton, B.A. Ebersole r Coastal Engineering 42 (2001) 199218
215
wave, current Zat one depth., and water elevation
Appendix A. Tabular data for the regular and
parameters, but also the vertical structure of the
irregular wave cases
mean current field. The steadiness and repeatability
should allow high quality data sets of suspended
The primary data sets for Tests 6N Zregular waves.
sand concentrations and longshore sediment trans-
and 8E Zirregular waves. are provided in tabular
port rates to be acquired during sediment transport
form in Tables A-1 and A-2, respectively. Each table
experiments in the LSTF.
lists the measured mean longshore current at tran-
sects Y19, Y23, Y27 and Y31 as well as the long-
shore-averaged value for these four transects, Vavg ;
the still water depth, d; the longshore-averaged value
Acknowledgements
of wave set-up or set-down, havg , and wave height,
Havg . The energy-based significant wave height, listed
The authors would like to thank Dr. Richard
for Test 8E, is based on using a lower cut-off
Whitehouse for openly sharing his experience in
frequency of 0.2 Hz Zi.e., 0.5 = Fp ., to remove the
developing the Coastal Research Facility at HR
low frequency energy from the water surface eleva-
Wallingford, in the United Kingdom. Appreciation is
tion time series. The cross-shore Z x-axis. positions
also given to Dr. Paul Visser for meeting with the
of the measurements are listed in the standard basin
first author to discuss the experimental methodology
coordinates Zsee Section 3 for a definition.. The still
used in his previous experiments, at Delft University
water depth can be calculated as:
of Technology, in The Netherlands. The research
presented here was funded by the ALarge-Scale Lab-
d s xr30 y 0.1 ,
for 3.0 m F x F 18.0 m
Z A-1.
oratory Investigation of Longshore Sediment Trans-
d s xr18 y 0.5 ,
for 18.0 m F x F 21.0 m Z A-2.
portB work unit of the Coastal Sedimentation and
Dredging Program of the General Investigations Re-
d s 0.667 m,
x G 21.0 m
for
Z A-3.
search and Development Program of the U.S. Army
Engineers. The internal reviews of Ms. Julie Rosati
Table A-3 provides a number of other measured
and Dr. Jane Smith and the valuable comments of
and calculated wave and water level quantities in the
Dr. J.W. Kamphuis and the anonymous reviewer are
surf zone, where h is the longshore-averaged mean
water depth Zequal to d q h ., h is the mean water
greatly appreciated. Permission to publish this paper
surface elevation, hm is the maximum value of wave
was granted by the Office of the Chief of Engineers,
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Table A-1
Primary data set from regular wave Test 6N
havg Zm.
Havg Zm.
Vavg Zmrs.
d Zm.
X-Loc. Zm.
Y19 Zmrs.
Y23 Zmrs.
Y27 Zmrs.
Y31 Zmrs.
4.12
0.297
0.338
0.302
0.188
0.281
0.037
0.025
0.047
5.72
0.401
0.422
0.392
0.397
0.403
0.091
0.020
0.077
7.12
0.417
0.421
0.426
0.434
0.424
0.137
0.012
0.101
8.62
0.368
0.392
0.390
0.342
0.373
0.187
0.001
0.131
10.12
0.323
0.301
0.305
0.312
0.310
0.237
y0.006
0.199
11.52
0.173
0.145
0.154
0.169
0.160
0.284
y0.010
0.254
13.12
0.060
0.058
0.075
0.090
0.071
0.337
y0.013
0.235
14.62
0.016
y0.005
0.031
0.046
0.022
0.387
y0.012
0.209
15.62
y0.007
y0.007
0.421
16.12
0.437
y0.013
0.206
16.85
0.462
y0.010
0.203
18.00
0.500
y0.011
0.190