HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING LABORATORY
Coastal Engineering
Propagation and breaking of waves in the coastal zone. Turbulent flow and sediment transport in the costal zone. Numerical simulation based on LES, RANS, Boussinesq or Mild Slope Equation. Laboratory measurements in the Wave Basin.

Recent Publications:
  • Dimas, A.A., and Kolokythas, G.A., 2009. “Reynolds Number Effect on Spatial Development of Viscous Flow Induced by Wave Propagation Over Bed Ripples”. In Advances in Environmental Fluid Mechanics. Editors: Dragutin T. Mihailovic and Carlo Gualtieri. World Scientific, London, New York, Singapore, to appear.
  • Dimas, A.A., and Dimakopoulos, A.S., 2009. “A Surface-Roller Model for the Numerical Simulation of Spilling Wave Breaking Over Constant Slope Beach”. J. Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering (ASCE), accepted.
  • Dimas, A.A., 2008. “Discussion on the Numerical Simulation of Wave-Induced Laminar Boundary Layers”. Coastal Engineering, 55, 1243-1244.
  • Dimas, A.A., 2007. “Large-Wave Simulation of Microscale Breaking Waves Induced by a Free-Surface Drift Layer”. Wave Motion, 44, 355-370.
  • Dimas, A.A., and Fialkowski, L.T., 2000. “Large-Wave Simulation (LWS) of Free-Surface Flows Developing Weak Spilling Breaking Waves”. J. Computational Physics, 159, 172-196.


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