Coastal Engineering

Papers
(The median citation count of Coastal Engineering is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Alongshore variability of a southern California beach, before and after nourishment156
Quantifying surfcam imagery to measure the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai tsunami along the California coast126
Remote sensing of wave-orbital velocities in the surfzone85
Evaluation of beach nourishment in Mar del plata, Argentina: An application of the CoastSat toolkit80
Classification of breaking wave impact loads on a fixed surface-piercing square column with an overhanging deck60
2DH modelling and mapping of surfbeat-driven flooding in the shadow of a jettied tidal inlet53
A mass transfer-based LES modelling methodology for analyzing the movement of submarine sediment flows with extensive shear behavior50
Sediment transport and bed erosion during storm surge using a coupled hydrodynamic and morphodynamic model considering wave and current interaction48
Satellite-based shoreline dynamics of repeatedly nourished Dutch beaches with contrasting directional wave climates47
Linking biomechanical stem properties of salt marsh vegetation to flow field alterations: A regional and seasonal analysis46
Evaluations of storm tide hazard along the coast of China using synthetic dynamic tropical cyclone events45
Impact of climate change on tropical cyclone wind and wave hazards and structural reliability of offshore wind turbines along the southeast coast of China45
Challenges in the measurement of cross-shore geotechnical characteristics of sandy beach surface sediments44
Experiments and large eddy simulations of oscillatory flow over vortex ripples at high Reynolds number42
A wave-coupled movable bottom friction scheme for spectral wave modeling based on sediment grain size and ripple evolution41
Hydrodynamic coupling of multi-fidelity solvers in REEF3D with application to ship-induced wave modelling40
Observations of beach change and runup, and the performance of empirical runup parameterizations during large storm events40
Early warning for maximum tsunami heights and arrival time based on an artificial neural network39
Numerical modeling of tsunamis generated by granular landslides in OpenFOAM®: A Coulomb viscoplastic rheology37
Improving WAVEWATCH III hindcasts with machine learning36
Working with nature to enhance beach accretion: Laboratory experiments of beach ploughing36
A guide for selecting periodic water wave theories - Le Méhauté (1976)’s graph revisited35
Statistical design of submerged artificial oyster reefs using Design of Experiments and clustering strategies34
Development of a Bayesian network-based early warning system for storm-driven coastal erosion34
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The sum of the parts: Green, gray, and green-gray infrastructure to mitigate wave overtopping34
An improved method for computing tidal datums33
Comparative study on volume conservation among various SPH models for flows of different levels of violence33
Fully nonlinear investigation on energy transfer between long waves and short-wave groups over a reef31
Geomorphological processes following the construction of an offshore artificial island in the radial sand ridges of the South Yellow Sea30
Remote sensing techniques for exploring waterline influence on shoreline stability in Northwest Ireland30
Adaptive covariance tapering for large datasets and application to spatial interpolation of storm surge30
Energy balance during Bragg wave resonance by submerged porous breakwaters through a mixture theory-based δ-LES-SPH model29
WAVEx: Stabilized finite elements for spectral wind wave models using FEniCSx29
Improvement of empirical formulas to estimate the reduction effects by berms on irregular wave runup over a dune-berm coast29
Estimating hurricane-induced vertical surge and wave loads on elevated coastal buildings based on CFD simulations and ensemble learning28
Experimental study on wave-induced loads and nonlinear effects for pier-pile group foundations of sea-crossing bridges: Wave slamming and suction effect28
Wave overtopping at rubble mound breakwaters: A new method to estimate roughness factor for rock armours under non-breaking waves28
A study of scale effects in experiments of monopile scour protection stability28
Hydrodynamic forces on small-diameter pipelines in combined wave-and-current flows28
Numerical investigation of freak wave slamming on a fixed deck structure28
Wind forcing, source term and grid optimization for hurricane wave modelling in the Gulf of Mexico27
The influence of the pile Reynolds number on monopile scour prediction across experimental length scales under combined wave-current loading27
A generalized method based on transfer learning and human-in-the-loop for wave-by-wave identification of nearshore wave breaking patterns27
Simultaneous mapping of nearshore bathymetry and waves based on physics-informed deep learning27
A simplified consistent nonlinear mild-slope equation model for random waves propagation and dissipation26
Hydro-morphodynamic modelling of mangroves imposed by tidal waves using finite element discontinuous Galerkin method26
Compound climate change risk analysis for port infrastructures26
Enhancing tsunami modelling by using N-waves and the measured topography of coral reef: A study in the South China Sea26
Wave downscaling strategies for practical wave agitation studies in harbours26
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An adaptive internal mass source wave-maker for short wave generation25
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A reduced-complexity shoreline model for coastal areas with large water level fluctuations25
Overland flow of broken solitary waves over a two-dimensional coastal plane25
An enhanced model for an extreme wave impacting a vertical cylinder25
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Neural Network calibration method for VARANS models to simulate wave-coastal structures interaction24
Experimental study on tsunami-driven debris damming loads on columns of an elevated coastal structure24
Predicting the response of complex systems for coastal management23
Growth of wind-driven waves under uniform currents23
Experimental investigation of mechanisms leading to tsunami-driven debris damming on elevated structures23
Small-scale field experiment on wave forces on a U-OWC breakwater22
Environmental risk assessment of coastal dredging based on clustering of meteocean forcing22
On the influence of the improved seaward boundary condition on the shock wave induced frictional swash process22
Influence of bed ripples on scour-induced span elongation of pipelines/cables22
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Corrigendum to “Modelling wave attenuation by quasi-flexible coastal vegetation” [Coast. Eng. 164 (2021) 103820]21
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Longshore sediment transport by large-scale lake circulations at low-energy, non-tidal beaches: A field and model study21
Curved concrete crownwalls on vertical breakwaters under impulsive wave load: Finite Element Analysis21
Note on seabed shear stress beneath bichromatic and bidirectional waves for large bed roughness21
Numerical investigation of sediment transport mechanism under breaking waves by DEM-MPS coupling scheme20
RoadRAT – A new framework to assess the probability of inundation, wave runup, and erosion impacting coastal roads20
Ship-induced wave forces on a moored ship in the presence of uniform current20
Wave-induced hydrodynamics of biogenic structures in the central Wadden Sea: Implications of the transformation from mussel beds to oyster reefs for wave attenuation20
Vertical structure of flows on a shallow reef flat: A coral reef surf zone19
Kinematics of nonlinear waves over variable bathymetry. Part II: Statistical distributions of orbital velocities and accelerations in irregular long-crested seas19
Two-dimensional simulations of large-scale violent breaking wave impacts on a flexible wall19
Quantifying the relative influence of coastal foredune growth factors on the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Coast using field observations and the process-based numerical model Windsurf19
The Depth-Semi-Averaged model: Benchmarking and applications to 2D and 3D problems19
Stability of single - layer cube armoured roundheads under wind and swell waves19
Reconstruction of significant wave height distribution from sparse buoy data by using deep learning19
The influence of submerged coastal structures on nearshore flows and wave runup19
Effects of the bed roughness and beach slope on the non-breaking solitary wave runup height19
On the stability of submerged rigid breakwaters against solitary waves19
Fully-coupled hydroelastic modeling of a deformable wall in waves18
Numerical modelling of tsunami propagation in idealised converging water body geometries18
Wind-wave forces on a smooth and rough horizontal submerged cylinder: A field experiment18
HyWaThy: Hybrid modeling of nearshore Waves with different baThymetric states18
Revisiting and enhancing methods of representative wave height selection for medium-term coastal bed level evolution applications18
Oscillating water column wave energy converter arrays coupled with a parabolic-wall energy concentrator in regular and irregular wave conditions18
The wavefront shift method for bay beaches18
Experimental analysis of post-overtopping flows on composite vertical breakwaters with retreated wave walls: Mapping of the hydrodynamic parameters17
Data-driven shoreline modelling at timescales of days to years17
Calculation of slamming wave loads on monopiles using fully nonlinear kinematics and a pressure impulse model17
Modelling beach morphological responses near coastal structures under oblique waves driven by sea-breezes17
Experimental study of the solitary wave induced groundwater hydrodynamics17
Numerical investigation of marsh terracing design parameters to optimize performance as a coastal restoration technique17
Effectiveness of restored mangrove wetlands in damping waves17
Corrigendum to “Wave overtopping at vertical and battered smooth impermeable structures” [Coast. Eng. 166 (2021) 103889]17
An ISPH with modified k–ε closure for simulating breaking periodic waves17
Study on whitecapping dissipation process for wave modelling during tropical cyclones17
Combining field observations and high-resolution numerical modeling to demonstrate the effect of coral reef roughness on turbulence and its implications for reef restoration design17
Focused waves on shear currents interacting with a vertical cylinder16
Experimental investigation on a novel and hyper-efficient oscillating water column wave energy converter coupled with a parabolic breakwater16
Combined nonlinear wave and current induced instantaneously-liquefied soil depth in a non-cohesive seabed16
Probabilistic estimation of the mean wave overtopping discharge on mound breakwaters16
Interactions between swell and colinear wind short crested waves, following and opposing15
Probabilistic storm surge and flood-inundation modeling of the Texas gulf coast using super-fast INundation of CoastS (SFINCS)15
Interaction between incident and reflected mechanical waves in the presence of an opposing wind15
Experimental investigation of scour effects on regular and breaking wave loads on a monopile15
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Evaluating five shoreline change models against 40 years of field survey data at an embayed sandy beach15
Transport properties of fast ice within the nearshore15
Observations of river-wave interactions at a small-scale river mouth15
Combining numerical tools to determine wave forces on moored ships15
Surge-NF: Neural Fields inspired peak storm surge surrogate modeling with multi-task learning and positional encoding15
Multi-layer non-hydrostatic free-surface flow model with kinematic seafloor for seismic tsunami generation15
Canopy drag parameterization from field observations for modeling wave transformation across salt marshes15
Small-scale groynes as morphodynamic damper in a macrotidal estuary: A SAE-RR assessment framework15
Experimental investigation on profile evolution of beach-dune system exposed to irregular waves15
Distribution of individual wave overtopping volumes at rubble mound seawalls15
Equilibrium configurations of sandy-muddy transitional beaches on South China coasts: Role of waves in formation of sand-mud transition boundary15
Consistent nonlinear mild-slope equation models for wide-angle water waves transformation15
Wave-induced incipient motion of non-buoyant plastic particles: Laboratory experiments14
An approximate explicit analytical solution for the frictionless swash hydrodynamics with an improved seaward boundary condition14
Laboratory observation of nonlinear wave shapes due to spatial varying opposing currents14
Wave overtopping discharges at rubble mound breakwaters including effects of a crest wall and a berm14
Breaking occurrence and dissipation in shortcrested waves in finite water14
Characteristics of nonlinear surface waves affecting non-buoyant plastic pellet transport over rippled beds14
Towards a unified drag coefficient formula for quantifying wave energy reduction by salt marshes14
Designing modular, artificial reefs for both coastal defense and coral restoration14
Vegetation effects on dune erosion under wave collision: Influence of planting density, biomass distribution and arrangement in scaled experiments14
2D experimental study on tsunami-like flow hydrodynamics and their effect on the hydraulic stability of Cubipod Homogeneous Low-Crested Structures14
Climate controls on longshore sediment transport and coastal morphology adjacent to engineered inlets14
Comments on wave-induced behavior of a coastal mud14
A comparison of eight weakly dispersive Boussinesq-type models for non-breaking long-wave propagation in variable water depth13
Autonomous classification of wave breaker type in a large wave flume13
Equilibrium planform of pocket beaches behind breakwater gaps: On the shape of the equilibrium shoreline.13
A new Gaussian Process based model for non-linear wave loading on vertical cylinders13
A framework for climate change adaptation of port infrastructures13
Reply to Discussion by A. Khayyer and C.H. Lee on “comparative study on volume conservation among various SPH models for flows of different levels of violence, coastal engineering, volume 191, August 13
From points to waves: Fast ocean wave spatial–temporal fields estimation using ensemble transform Kalman filter with optical measurement13
Phase-resolved analysis of velocity field structure and vorticity dynamics under colinear swell and wind-waves13
Numerical investigation of seasonal wind-wave responses to severe seagrass decline in a coastal lagoon13
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Study of local scour around rectangular and square subsea caissons under steady current condition13
Physical modelling study on wave damping induced by an idealized floating kelp farm13
In-situ cementation of riprap for scour protection around offshore monopile foundations: from prototype modeling to field implementation13
Growth of surface wind-waves in water of finite depth: A laboratory experiment13
Impact of banquette structures on a sandy beach profile: Laboratory experiments13
Numerical simulation of ship waves in the presence of a uniform current13
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Morphodynamic modeling of Fourleague Bay in Mississippi River Delta: Sediment fluxes across river-estuary-wetland boundaries13
Wave run-up on composite bucket foundation due to random waves: Model tests and prediction formulae13
Validation and practical application of nonlinear wave decomposition methods for irregular waves13
Forward energy grade line analysis for tsunami inundation mapping13
A data model to forecast the morphological evolution of multiple beach profiles13
Evaluating portable reef for mangrove sapling protection: An experimental study using live mangroves12
Wave overtopping at two-class armour berm breakwaters: an experimental study12
Predicting wave runup on composite beaches12
Adaptive formulation for probabilistic storm surge predictions through sharing of numerical simulation results across storm advisories12
Slamming loads induced by dam-break flow on land-based oscillating water columns: Numerical and experimental study12
A coupled numerical model for interactions between waves and flexible vegetation blades12
Storm surge hazard estimation along the US Gulf Coast: A Bayesian hierarchical approach12
Energetics analysis of solitary waves using a multi-layer model12
Wave-induced swaying of Rhizophora mangle saplings and implications for hybrid coastal protection12
Equilibrium depth and time scale of local scour around a forced vibrating pipeline12
Remotely sensed short-crested breaking waves in a laboratory directional wave basin12
Computations of energetic nearshore waves: Are weakly dispersive phase-resolving models telling the same story?12
Satellite observations of storm erosion and recovery of the Ebro Delta coastline, NE Spain12
A surface porosity approach for eliminating artificial ponding in coastal salt marsh simulations12
Minutely monitoring of swash zone processes using a lidar-camera fusion system12
On the buoyancy production term for Reynolds-averaged modelling of breaking waves12
Laboratory investigation of turbulence scales of swash flows generated by consecutive solitary waves12
The relative impact of sea level rise and dredging strategies on the morphodynamic evolution of the Western Scheldt estuary (The Netherlands)12
Numerical modelling of nearshore wave transformation, breaking and overtopping of coastal protections with the enhanced Serre–Green–Naghdi equations11
A local phase-shift approach for predicting wave-group-forced infragravity waves under directional seas11
Linking marsh sustainability to event-based sedimentary processes: Impulsive river floods initiated lateral erosion of deltaic marshes11
Application of a subgrid-scale urban inundation model for a storm surge simulation: Case study of typhoon Haiyan11
Application of laboratory dam break experiments to non-impulsive wave overtopping11
Experimental investigation on the effects of shoreface nourishment placement and timing on long-term cross-shore profile development11
Shorelines as graphs: A spatio-temporal data-driven model for predicting shoreline dynamics11
A novel hybrid machine learning model for rapid assessment of wave and storm surge responses over an extended coastal region11
Corrigendum to “Field study of local scour around bridge foundations on silty seabed under irregular tidal flow” [Coast. Eng. 185 (October 2023), 104382]11
Numerical modeling of hydrodynamics on an elevated residential structure from varied wave and surge conditions using OpenFOAM11
Corrigendum to “Standalone color-based bathymetry over 10 years at Duck (NC, USA) from optical satellite imagery and wave breaking analysis” [Coast. Eng. 203 15 2026 104855]11
Pinpointing the role of wave period in vegetation induced wave attenuation11
An approach for quantifying nearshore tsunami height probability and its application to the Pearl River Estuary10
Hydrodynamics of in-canopy flow in synthetically generated coral reefs under oscillatory wave motion10
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Prediction of irregular wave (current)-induced pore water pressure around monopile using machine learning methods10
Large-scale wave breaking over a barred beach: SPH numerical simulation and comparison with experiments10
A wave damping model for flexible marsh plants with leaves considering linear to weakly nonlinear wave conditions10
The effect of variations in water level on wave overtopping discharge over a dike: An experimental model study10
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Hydrodynamic forces on subsea cables immersed in wave boundary layers10
On the uncertainties in stone armor stability10
Wave dissipation induced by flow interactions with porous artificial reefs10
Laboratory evaluation of the effectiveness of nature-assisted beach enhancement techniques10
Estimating tropical cyclone-induced wind, waves, and surge: A general methodology based on representative tracks10
Wave runup and total water level observations from time series imagery at several sites with varying nearshore morphologies10
Experimental and numerical investigations of extreme wave impacting on a suspended structure10
An initial analysis of swash flow velocity patterns10
Simulation of cross-shore breaker bar development utilizing a stabilized two-equation turbulence model10
Storm damage assessment of a port in the Southwestern Black Sea10
An effective method for nonlinear wave–current generation and absorption10
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A non-Darcy flow based analytical solution for the exit point movement under the wave induced swash condition10
Wave direction controls erosion response of embayed beaches under climate change10
Correct generation of the bound set-down for surface gravity wave groups in laboratory experiments of intermediate to shallow depth10
An experimental assessment of the effect of current on wave buoy measurements10
Super-resolution on unstructured coastal wave computations with graph neural networks and polynomial regressions9
An incompressible SPH numerical model for simulating wave and non-Newtonian mud interaction9
Corrigendum to “SBI: A sandbar extraction spectral index for multi-spectral satellite optical imagery” [Coast. Eng. 200 15 (2025) 104752]9
Evaluation of the 3D response and performance of an operational wave buoy for coastal wave monitoring9
Analytical solution of the initial tsunami profile and peak displacement generated by a submarine rectangular-block slide9
Experimental and numerical investigation on a novel dual-chamber OWC-WEC integrated with an energy-focusing breakwater9
Drag coefficient prediction model for simulating breaking waves propagating on partly submerged vegetated sloping beaches using a RANS model9
Rising impact hours on sandy beaches linked to total water level variability along U.S. coastlines9
Wave transformation across impermeable and porous artificial reefs9
Numerical investigation of scour around the monopile using CFD-DEM coupling method9
Wave overtopping discharges at rubble mound structures in shallow water9
Blending bathymetry: Combination of image-derived parametric approximations and celerity data sets for nearshore bathymetry estimation9
Experimental interpretation of the seaward boundary condition parameter in dam-break induced swash models9
Practical modelling of sand transport and beach profile evolution in the swash zone9
Vertical contraction scour beneath solid and porous obstacles in steady currents: A numerical and theoretical study9
Multiscale air entrainment in wave-in-deck loads9
Experimental investigation on scour characteristics and predictive model of monopile foundations under breaking waves9
Physical model comparison of gray and green mitigation alternatives for flooding and wave force reduction in an idealized urban coastal environment9
A quasi-three-phase flow simulation of the interactions between solitary waves and a vertical seawall installed on a sandy beach9
Vertical growth rate of planted vegetation controls dune growth on a sandy beach8
A globally verified coastal glare estimation tool8
Alongshore variability in wave runup and inner surfzone wave conditions on an intermediate beach8
Flexible adaptation strategies for managing compound climate change risks in port infrastructures8
Convergence and divergence of storm waves induced by multi-scale currents: Observations and coupled wave-current modeling8
Experiments on Tsunami-induced scour at circular and rectangular onshore structures8
A probabilistic coral rubble mechanical instability model applied with field observations from the Great Barrier reef8
Numerical modeling of debris transport due to tsunami flow in a coastal urban area8
Application of an optical tracking technique to characterize nearshore wave-driven transport and dispersion of model driftwood8
Old forecasts vs actual shoreline evolution: Assessing model's performance and projections accuracy8
Investigating the effects of box girder bridge geometry on solitary wave force using SPH modeling8
A copula-based model to describe the uncertainty of overtopping variables on mound breakwaters8
Including the effect of depth-uniform ambient currents on waves in a non-hydrostatic wave-flow model8
Corrigendum: “Experimental study on local scour for large-diameter mono-column composite bucket foundation for offshore wind turbines” [Coast. Eng. 193 (2024)]8
Barge-driven resuspension facilitates sediment bypass in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (Louisiana, USA)8
Numerical simulation of particles beneath a towed circular cylinder8
Runup, inundation, and flow velocity of non-decaying dam-break bores on coarse-grained slopes8
Impact of the permeable breakwater on spatiotemporal siltation in a semi-enclosed harbor: case study of Binhai Harbor, China8
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