摘要: |
Tomasicchio's formula is a physically based one; in fact, the basic idea in developing the formula (Tomasicchio et al. 1994; Lamberti and Tomasicchio 1997; Tomasicchio et al. 1999,2007,2013,2015, 2017,2018) is to consider a mound of material subjected to oblique waves, which determine a longshore transport, no matter what the sediment size is: from sand to rock units. The authors recognize that Tomasicchio's formula originates from the stability of breakwater armors, but it is important to underline that it is not a traditional one: in fact, a dynamically stable reshaping type breakwater (e.g., Van der Meer 1988) was initially considered. For this particular type of coastal structure (Tomasicchio et al. 1994; Lamberti and Tomasicchio 1997), it was assumed that the units at the coastal mound move during up- and downrush with the same obliquity of breaking and reflected waves at the breaker depth. Through the years, this assumption was further extended to a wider range of sediment sizes (from sand to rock units), with the adoption of a characteristic wave height, including the effect of limited water depth (Vidal et al. 1995), and an energy flux type longshore transport model was developed, valid from sand to rock units. |