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An analysis of wave dissipation at the Hendijan mud coast, the Persian Gulf

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Effects of non-rigid muddy bed on the wave climate at the Hendijan coast along the northwestern part of the Persian Gulf have been examined through field measurements and numerical wave transformation modeling. The field survey included measurements of wave characteristics at an offshore and a nearshore station, and mud sampling to obtain the thickness of the fluid mud layer and its rheological properties. Comparisons of wave spectra at the two stations show energy dissipation along the wave trajectory with higher dissipation in the wave period band around 6 s, because depending on the site a given frequency band tends to be more effective in wave–mud interaction. Dissipation induced by the non-rigid bed is introduced into the REF/DIF wave transformation model through the application of viscoelastic constitutive equations for fluid mud. Numerical outputs of the nearshore wave height, for which the viscoelastic parameters included in the model were obtained independently from oscillatory frequency-sweep tests, are found to be comparable with measured values at the nearshore station. This implies that the model is useful for estimating the design wave conditions in the study area.

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Acknowledgment

The authors are grateful to the Iranian Fisheries Company for providing the field data and to Messrs. Bandarabadi and Shekarchi, lead engineers of the field measurement team of the Darya Negar Pars Company, for their support during data analysis. Thanks are extended to Mr. Farzin Samsami, doctoral candidate of K. N. Toosi University of Technology, for his valuable collaboration.

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    Seyed Abbas Haghshenas & Mohsen Soltanpour

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Haghshenas, S.A., Soltanpour, M. An analysis of wave dissipation at the Hendijan mud coast, the Persian Gulf. Ocean Dynamics 61, 217–232 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-010-0333-z

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