Dynamic Properties of Immersed Sand at Virginia Beach, Virginia (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Wyman Harrison

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0265877482 ISBN 13: 9780265877487

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how Virginia Beach sand behaves in real waves and currents.

This concise study describes the dynamic properties of beach grains, using measured settling velocities and related metrics to explain how sand moves, settles, and sorting happens in different beach zones. The work links particle shape, size, and fluid conditions to practical outcomes like drag, Reynolds numbers, and beach slope behavior with changing water properties.

Based on sand samples from the shoaling-wave, breaking-wave, swash-backwash, and foreshore zones, the book explains how settling velocity translates into dynamic properties. It covers how shape factors, nominal grain size, and sorting relate to particle motion in natural seawater. You’ll see how low to moderate Reynolds numbers affect drag and how water temperature and salinity influence outcomes on Virginia Beach.

What you’ll gain from the study:

• How mean settling velocity informs Reynolds numbers and drag coefficients.
• Connections between particle shape, size, and dynamic behavior in waves.
• Comparisons between observed trends and theoretical beach models.

Ideal for readers seeking a focused, data-driven look at sediment dynamics and beach response to wave action.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0265877482
• ISBN 13: 9780265877487
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 67