Humplike nourishing of the shoreface : a study on more efficient nourishing of the shoreface

The work reported in this thesis was financed by the Delft Cluster 2 project "North Sea and Coast" (DC 05.02). Part of the work of Workpackage 2 of that project is co-financed by the WINN (WaterlNNovation) framework, as part of the project "More sand, less effort". Together with partners from Delft University of Technology, Unesco IHE and Rijkswaterstaat RIKZ, 'WL-Delft Hydraulics develops a number of innovative technical morphological adaptation scenarios to deal with the effects of sea-level rise. The work has focused on three scenarios mainly. viz.: "Broad beach, Better surfing", investigating a more efficient way of shoreface nourishment in a context of coastline management. "Plenty of Sand, Naturally safen', investigating a more natural approach to dune strengthening in a context of protection from flooding "Sand for the Wadden sea, Preservation of the flats", investigating an innovative approach to increase the robustness of tidal inlets in a context of dealing with the adverse effects of sea-level rise. The work reported in this thesis is a contribution to the first item on the above list: "Broad beach, Better surfing". Main objective is to analyse the efficiency of an innovative way of nourishing, with respect to previously used more traditional methods.