TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sorensen, Robert  M
AU  - Sorensen, Robert  M
TI  - Basic coastal engineering
SN  - 9781441936103
U1  - 551.46  
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  -  Springer-Science+Business Media, Inc., 
KW  - Civil Engineering; Finite-amplitude waves; Coastal water; wind-generated waves
N2  - Basic Coastal Engineering is an introductory text on wave mechanics and coastal processes along with fundamentals that underline the practice of coastal engineering. This book was written for a senior or first postgraduate course in coastal engineering. It is also suitable for self study by anyone having a basic engineering or physical science background. The level of coverage does not require a math or fluid mechanics background beyond that presented in a typical undergraduate civil or mechanical engineering curriculum. The material p- sented in this text is based on the author’s lecture notes from a one-semester course at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Texas A&M University, and George Washington University, and a senior elective course at Lehigh University. The text contains examples to demonstrate the various analysis techniques that are presented and each chapter (except the first and last) has a collection of problems for the reader to solve that further demonstrate and expand upon the text material. Chapter briefly describes the coastal environment and introduces the re- tively new field of coastal engineering and other Chapters describes the two-dimensional characteristics of surface waves and presents the small-amplitude wave theory to support this description.
ER  -