DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

DUE 5.00 PM ON FRIDAY 10th May 2013.

GENG5501: Coastal & Offshore Engineering Assignment No. 3

Assume = 1025 kg m
-3
; g = 9.81 ms
-2
; density of sediment = 1025 kg m
-3
; viscosity = 10
-6
m
2
s
-1


1. A wave train with T = 11s and height H = 2.3 m is incident on a vertical sea wall situated in a
water depth of 5m. Assuming linear theory and a perfect reflection from the wall (i.e. no
energy losses) calculate the maximum wave height, surface and near-bed horizontal and
vertical velocities at the nodes and anti-nodes.

2. You are required to design a protection system for an oil pipeline located on the North-West
shelf. The pipeline is buried in a trench and is to be covered with gravel for stabilisation. The
mean water depth is 47 m and the 100-year storm (tropical cyclone) has a wave height of 15
m and period 12 s. What is the mean diameter of gravel which should be used to prevent
large scale erosion ?

If the cyclone coincides with the time of the maximum tidal currents of speed 0.5 m/s
travelling in the same direction as the waves, what is the mean grain size of the material
which will not erode ?

[Assume: The sea bed is flat with a roughness (r, K
b
) = 0.2 m. Use the vector addition
method and the Shields curve].

3. A steady current of 0.4 ms
-1
is acting on a flat seabed that consists of sand with mean grain
size of 0.220 mm in a water depth of 20 m. Find

(a) magnitude of the bedload sediment transport rate from the van Rijn method in the
absence of waves.

Waves of height 3 m and period 15 s are superimposed on the above current and are travelling
in the same direction as the current. Find the following:

(b) maximum bottom shear stress on the bed from (i) Soulsby and (ii) vector addition
methods.
(c) magnitude of the maximum sediment transport rate using (i) the vector addition method
and (ii) the Soulsby method in combination with the van Rijn method.