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EPSRC Reference:	EP/K024108/1
Title:	ENFORCE - Extreme responses using NewWave: Forces, Overtopping and Run-up in Coastal Engineering
Principal Investigator:	Taylor, Professor PH
Other Investigators:	Raby, Professor AC
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Department:	Engineering Science
Organisation:	University of Oxford
Scheme:	Standard Research
Starts:	01 December 2013	Ends:	29 February 2016	Value (£):	370,111
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Coastal & Waterway Engineering
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Environment
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Panel History:	Panel Date Panel Name Outcome 11 Mar 2013 Engineering Prioritisation Meeting 11/12 March 2013 Announced
Summary on Grant Application Form
In the UK there is a significant amount of infrastructure located at or close to the coast, some of it highly vulnerable to relatively small wave events as well as extreme storm events. Most published coastal studies, and hence guidance documents, are based on the prediction of average quantities such as overtopping rates per hour. Whilst these are undoubtedly useful for estimating drainage requirements and for making flood predictions if the inland drainage is inadequate or becomes blocked, they give little insight into the damage that may be caused by a single extreme overtopping or impulse event, which could cause global structural failure of sea defence works. This project addresses the problem of the most extreme responses at the coast, whether this is wave run-up, overtopping volume or impulse on a section of sea defence works. We aim to understand and model the individual largest and most damaging waves within a long random sequence of severe waves hitting the coast - a storm consisting of thousands of individual waves. We will use the idea of localised groups of large waves to model the most severe waves that arise by chance in a storm. Detailed comparisons will be made between waves in the new flume at Plymouth University and a recently developed computer model OXBOU, all underpinned by analysis of waves at 2 locations off the British coast.
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