• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Coastal and Inlet Processes Numerical Modeling System for Oregon Inlet, North Carolina
  • Contributor: Vemulakonda, S. Rao [Author]; Swain, Abhimanyu [Author]; Houston, James Robert [Author]; Farrar, Paul D. [Author]; Chou, Lucia W. [Author]; Ebersole, Bruce A. [Author]
  • imprint: U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC); Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC); Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1985
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/20.500.11970/111603
  • Keywords: Storm surge ; Waves ; Dredge disposal ; Mathematical models ; Numerical models ; Numerical simulation ; Coast changes ; Oregon Inlet ; Inlets ; Coastal changes ; Currents ; Sediment transport ; Evaluation ; North Carolina ; Hydraulic structures ; Wave-induced currents ; Coastal processes ; Tides ; Ingenieurwissenschaften (620) ; Hydrodynamics
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  • Description: Source: https://erdc-library.erdc.dren.mil/jspui/ ; Oregon Inlet is a large tidal inlet through the barrier island system of North Carolina. In 1970, Congress authorized the Manteo (Shallowbag) Bay project which had provisions to stabilize Oregon Inlet with two jetties, deepen the ocean bar channel to 20 ft, and bypass across the inlet sand intercepted by the jetties. This report describes the results of a numerical study to consider coastal and inlet processes in the region surrounding the inlet under existing and planned project conditions. To accomplish the objectives of the study, a system of numerical models called Coastal and Inlet Processes (CIP) Numerical Modeling System was developed. It included models for wave propagation, wave-induced currents and setup, sediment transport within and beyond the surf zone, and profile response (onshore-offshore transport). Results from a separate study on numerical simulation of tides and storm surge for Oregon Inlet were utilized in the present investigation. As a test for an extreme event, the Ash Wednesday storm of March 1962 was simulated with the profile response model. There was good agreement between the calculated erosion amounts of the shore-normal profiles for Bodie and Pea Islands (on either side of Oregon Inlet) and values measured in the field. As an alternative to the stabilization of the entrance channel by construction of two jetties, a nonstructural solution proposed by the Department of the Interior was evaluated using the profile response model. The solution involved disposal of the dredged material from the entrance channel in the nearshore region with the idea that the material would be dispersed shoreward by wave action at a rate sufficient to prevent dredging-induced beach erosion. The results of the model indicated that on the average only 25 percent of the disposed material migrated toward the shore in a year. This migration was insufficient to prevent dredging-induced beach erosion. In order to perform an ocean bar channel dredging analysis, ...
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