Coastal Engineering

1. COURSE INFORMATION:

School	Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Course Level	Undergraduate
Direction	Environmental Engineering
Course ID	ENVE 535	Semester	9^th
Course Category	Elective
Course Modules	Instruction Hours per Week		ECTS
Lectures and Tutorials	3 T=2, E=1, L=0		5
Course Type	Special Background Scientific Area
Prerequisites
Instruction/Exam Language	Greek
The course is offered to Erasmus students	No
Course URL	https://www.eclass.tuc.gr/modules/auth/courses.php?fc=71

2. LEARNING OUTCOMES

Learning Outcomes

The course includes basic principles of wave mechanics and costal hydraulics.

By the end of the course, the student has the necessary knowledge and skills to:

Understand essential facts, concepts, principles and theories of coastal engineering: coastal morphology, erosion, mechanisms of sediment transport, balance of sediments, impact of coastal structures, soft and hard coastal protection measures
Calculate the “design wave” of a region based on wind data and geographical maps.
Analyze new parameters of the “design wave” based on wave shoaling, refraction, diffraction, breaking and reflection against coastal morphology and structures. Application of methodologies in the design of coastal works.
Evaluate the evolution of the coastline near a coastal project and the balance of sediments in a coastal area.

General Competencies/Skills

Teamwork
Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies
Decision making

3. COURSE SYLLABUS

Introduction to basic concepts of coastal engineering (seawater, composition, density, salinity)
The analytical two-dimensional wave theories.
The simple analytical description of wave evolution in the coastal area.
Wave shoaling, refraction, diffraction.
Wave breaking and reflection
Modern wave theories (mathematical wave theory, linear wave theory, spectral wave theory).
Stochastic analysis of wind waves. Circulation, mixing and transport of solutes and sediments.
Forecast of wind waves.
Solutes and sediments transport.
Circulation of solutes and sediments.
Mixing of solutes and sediments.
Coastal morphology.
Coastal sediment transport and coastal works.

4. INSTRUCTION and LEARNING METHODS - ASSESSMENT

Lecture Method	Direct (face to face)
Use of Information and Communication Technology	Data processing and analysis software Learning process supported through the electronic platform e-class
Instruction Organisation	Activity	Workload per Semester (hours)
	- Lectures and tutorials	39
	- Project	40
	- Autonomous study	46
	Course Total	125
Assessment Method	Ι. Open book exams (80%) including, short answer, design and math questions. II. Project (20%).

5. RECOMMENDED READING

Introduction to coastal technology and coastal structures, Koutitas Christoforos G.
Coastal geomorhpology, Karymbalis Th. Efthymios

6. INSTRUCTORS

Course Instructor:	Dr A. Koutroulis (LTS-ChEnvEng)
Lectures:	New Scientist or according to PD407/80
Tutorial exercises:	New Scientist or according to PD407/80
Laboratory Exercises:

Technical University of Crete