Coastal Engineering VII: Modelling, Measurements, Engineering and Management of Seas and Coastal Regions

The 31 papers, edited from their conference presentations, examine computational and experimental tools currently being used to manage coastal areas. They cover shallow water studies, pollutant transport and dispersion, water quality issues, oil spills, estuarine problems, coastal ecosystems and their sustainability, coastal erosion and sedimentation, sea defense and protection systems, coastal geomorphology, and case studies. Among specific topics are the further improvement of drift forecast at sea based on operational oceanographic systems, a numerical simulation of an oil spill in Istanbul strait, project planning and implementation in coastal and shoreline structures, and the experimental study of salty wind damage. There is no subject index. Distributed in North American by Computational Mechanics, Inc. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR