562
SUBJECT INDEX
total shear stress 154
turbulent shear stresses 140
types of problems 133
typical scales 161
unidirectional currents 141
verification 160
viscosity scale effect 151
wave attenuation 152
with currents 155
long-wave periods 133
Los Angeles/Long Beach harbor
model 131
Mach number 31, 66
Masonboro Inlet tracer study 320
mathematical models 15
mean elevation 497
measurements
accuracy 469
categories 462
errors 470
factors 462
flow velocity 478
pressure 491
requirements 460
sea surface elevation 473
sediment transport 492
stress and force 491
types 461
versus theory 461
water level 472
model verification
movable-bed model 321
vertical-wall structures 221
mooring lines, nonlinear elasticity
226
movable-bed models 237
bathymetric surveys 493
beach accretion 273
bedload models 252
bedload shear stresses 252
best model requirements 257
cautions 244
Dean’s model criteria 310
example 313
densimetric Froude model requirements 266
generic models 242
Hallermeier’s model criteria
288
Hughes’s model criteria 302
Ito and Tsuchiya’s model criteria 287
laboratory effects 318
lightweight model 319
requirements 260
lightweight tracer model example 265
longshore transport 273
measurements 322
model operation 323
model verification 321
Noda’s criteria 282
offshore best model example
260
offshore sand model example
268
philosophy 238
problems addressed 240
requirements 238, 242
role 239
sand model requirements 267
scale selection 323
scaling requirements 244
sediment fall speed 293
similitude problems 251
site-specific models 241
summary of distorted model
criteria 310
surf zone modeling requirements 311
suspended transport models
281
comparison example 291