Wave Breaking
Oral
Stefan Schimmels, Dr.-Ing
Institution Head
Forschungszentrum Küste (FZK), Hannover, Germany
An exact understanding of the wave breaking process is of major interest in coastal and offshore engineering research, but for breaking inception still no objective and unique criterion exists. The Phase-Time Method (PTM) (Huang et al., 1992) can overcome the discrepepancies of other methods and was succesfully applied by Zimmermann and Seymour (2002) and Irschik et al. (2010) for breaking wave detection. However, their threshold based approaches still lack general validity, which will be reviewed and thoroughly evaluated in the presentation in order to Point out the most critical issues and propose a new unambiguous approach to interpret PTM data.