Coastal Dynamics
Ages 23–25
Grade Reference
| 🇺🇸 United States | Graduate Year 2 |
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | Postgraduate Year 2 |
| 🇮🇳 India | Postgraduate Year 2 |
| 🇳🇬 Nigeria | Postgraduate Year 2 |
| 🇿🇦 South Africa | Master's Year 2 |
| 🇦🇺 Australia | Master's Year 2 |
| 🇨🇦 Canada | Master's Year 2 |
About This Textbook
Coastal Dynamics is a free, openly licensed Engineering textbook for Ages 23+ (Graduate & Professional) students. Available for instant PDF download in 1 language with no registration required. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
This textbook focuses on the interrelation between physical wave, flow and sediment transport phenomena and the resulting morphodynamics of a wide variety of coastal systems. The objective is to provide hydraulic and coastal engineering Master of Science students with insights into the phenomenological and theoretical, as well as applied aspects of these phenomena.
Table of Contents
Overview — Large-scale Geographical Variation of Coasts — Ocean Waves — Global Wave and Tidal Environments — Coastal Hydrodynamics — Sediment Transport — Cross-shore Transport and Profile Development — Longshore Transport and Coastline Changes — Coastal Inlets and Tidal Basins — Coastal Protection
