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Recent Developments in Instrumentation on Reduced Scale Physical Models of Coastal Area Evolution

Author(s): P. Galichon; R. Gagnou; Z. M. Akowski

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Abstract: Previously the major characteristics of waves(period,height and direction)andtheir behaviour in the course of tests was set either manually or semi-automatically.Inaddition the tide and currents were generated by distinct apparati(generallymechanical)whose overall synchronisation was a delicate undertaking.The setting ofthe various apparati,and in particular for sedimentological calibration,was an operationwhich demanded that a variety of parameters be frequently changed or adapted.

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Year: 1991

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