Reshaping of beach nourishments under high angle of wave incidence

Reshaping of beach nourishments under high angle of wave incidence i Preface The following report presents the Master of Science Thesis titled " Reshaping Mechanisms of Beach Nourishments under High Angle Wave Conditions " submitted as a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science (MSc) in Civil Engineering, the main supervision of Ir. Bas Huisman to whom I would like to express my deepest gratitude. I would like to thank him for letting me be part of his PhD research project and specially for trusting his idea in me. As an engineer, it has been an enriching experience to have learned from and with him; I am thankful for his guidance and objective input throughout the entire research process, particularly during the closing phase of my thesis. I would like to thank the head of my thesis committee Prof. Marcel Stive for giving me the opportunity to work in the NEMO project as a student assistant during my complete tenure at TU Delft, also for his research recommendations, and for his support toward the successful culmination of my MSc thesis. I would also like to thank my committee members Ir. Roderik Hoekstra, Dr. Matthieu de Schipper, and Ir. Dirk Rijnsdorp for their interest and feedback. Deltares as an organization provided me with the necessary tools to complete my project for which I am grateful; more importantly within Deltares, I would like to express my honest gratitude to Ir. Pieter Koen Tonnon, Ir. Gerwin Stam, and Dr. Alessio Giardino for their generous help in overcoming the hurdles faced during numerical modeling. Lastly, I genuinely want to thank all the friendships I cultivated over the past two years who made the Netherlands feel like home. To my parents, family, and friends from across the Atlantic I want to express my vast appreciation for understanding my decision and for supporting me throughout the process. Moving to the Netherlands and learning hydraulic engineering from the Dutch has been a humbling experience that has made me grow as an engineer as well as a person. For the opportunity, I will always be thankful. Abstract The morphological impact on nourishments of conditions with high oblique wave incidence has been investigated in literature using either a one-line approach or quasy-2D models. These models predict downdrift nourishment migration and the generation of alongshore sand waves for persistent conditions with high oblique wave incidence. …