Modeling Energy Loss with Reef Balls


Home -- Project Objectives and Motivations -- What are Reef Balls? -- Background -- Approach -- Results -- References	References Army Corp of Engineers (2000). Coastal Engineering Manual. Coastal Hydrodynamics, Chapter II-1. Arnouil, Dana S. (2008). Shoreline Response for a Reef Ball TM Submerged Breakwater System Offshore of Grand Cayman Island. Florida Institute of Technology. Harris, L. E. (2003). Submerged reef structures for beach erosion control. Coastal structures 2003 - proceedings of the conference, 1155-1163. Harris, Lee E. (2001, September). Submerged Reef Structures for Habitat Enhancement and Shoreline Erosion Abatement . Vol. CETN-III-xx. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Innes, S. I. (2005). An overview of artificial reefs for surfing and sand retention in California. California and the world ocean '02: Revisiting and revising California's ocean agenda - proceedings of the conference, CWO '02, 191-203. The Heinz Center (2000). Evaluation of Erosion Hazards Report. FEMA: Significant Losses From Coastal Erosion Anticipated Along U.S. Coastlines. http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=7708 Acknowldegments Thank you to Professor Wu for helping me think outside of the box and giving me your guidance so I could complete a worthwile project! Also, a special thank you to my family for being so supportive and helpful and allowing me to get water all over the floor while I conducted my experiment ;). I know you all were excited to learn an extra thing or two about Coastal Engineering and I'm glad you could be a part of it. I truly couldn't have done it without you all!

Arnouil, Dana S. (2008). Shoreline Response for a Reef Ball TM Submerged Breakwater System
Offshore of Grand Cayman Island. Florida Institute of Technology.

Harris, L. E. (2003). Submerged reef structures for beach erosion control. Coastal structures 2003 - proceedings of the conference, 1155-1163.

Harris, Lee E. (2001, September). Submerged Reef Structures for Habitat Enhancement and Shoreline Erosion Abatement . Vol. CETN-III-xx. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Innes, S. I. (2005). An overview of artificial reefs for surfing and sand retention in California. California and the world ocean '02: Revisiting and revising California's ocean agenda - proceedings of the conference, CWO '02, 191-203.

The Heinz Center (2000). Evaluation of Erosion Hazards Report. FEMA: Significant Losses From Coastal Erosion Anticipated Along U.S. Coastlines. http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=7708

Acknowldegments

Thank you to Professor Wu for helping me think outside of the box and giving me your guidance so I could complete a worthwile project! Also, a special thank you to my family for being so supportive and helpful and allowing me to get water all over the floor while I conducted my experiment ;). I know you all were excited to learn an extra thing or two about Coastal Engineering and I'm glad you could be a part of it. I truly couldn't have done it without you all!