Coast,
Estuaries and Rivers Group
NCI is internationally recognised in this field. Areas of interest include:
- Coastal Engineering - research in this discipline covers the prediction
and analysis of long-term morphological changes, methods of quantifying
risk of coastal flooding, random wave propagation, numerical modelling
of wave inundation, overtopping, and wave-induced circulation and stability
methods applied to nearshore currents and beaches.
- River Hydraulics - research is being carried out on the development and application of computational hydraulic software. Development focuses mainly on 1D and 3D. Application areas include flood prediction, river rehabilitation, flow at hydraulic structures (for stability and safety), recreational water facilities.
- Asset Management: Including management of flood protection systems
Staff Members
Prof D E Reeve
Dr N G Wright
Dr N Dodd
Projects
Numerical modelling of nearshore hydrodynamics and morphodynamics
Investigation of the multi-scale variability of beaches
Modelling of open-channel flow to illustrate the effects of channel shape and heterogeneous roughness
Simulation of wave overtopping using 3D wave model
Investigation of the long term evolution of offshore sandbanks
Numerical modelling of bank erosion in alluvial river channels