SUBJECT INDEX
565
criterion 85, 90
currents
scaling criteria 94
shear stress scale 121
diffraction criterion 97
harbor models 84
laboratory effects 97
refraction 95
criterion 97
scale effects 99
friction 109
other effects 117
surface tension 107
wave breaking 116
wave reflection 100
wave transmission 101
scale selection 129
similitude criteria 91, 92
thermal similitude 124
turbulent boundary layer 119
turbulent shear stresses 92
types of problems 85
typical length scales 130
unidirectional currents 94
verification 128
viscosity scale effect 109
with currents 122
significant wave height 500
Silver Bay breakwater 191
similarity
complete 54
conditions 52
definition 14
dynamic 60
geometric 56
kinematic 58
similitude 52, 81
criteria 52
definition 14
floating structures 223
hydraulic 62
methods 52
mooring line example 224
perfect 61
requirements 54
sediment transport
hydrodynamics 247
requirements 248
sloping structures 213
suspended transport models
281
vertical-wall structures 216
Sines breakwater 186
SIWEH wave group synthesis 402
skewness 497
sloping structures 213
Snell’s law 95, 142
solitary waves 379
spectral analysis 499
directional 501
spectral stability number 180
spiral wavemakers 437
spurious waves
long waves 97, 99, 412
directional wavemakers 433
stability number 179
Stokes law 44
Stokes waves 367
stress and force measurement 491
Strouhal number 31, 68, 91, 138
surf similarity parameter 303, 306
surface tension 66, 107, 116, 151,
153
scale effect 107, 151
Surfside-Sunset Beach model 320
suspended load 243
suspended sediment transport 281
modeling conclusions 316
similitude criteria 281
system of units 19
American engineering system
21
base units 20
British mass system 21