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Energy Losses of Waves in Shallow Water 


by 
William G. Grosskopf and C. Linwood Vincent 


COASTAL ENGINEERING TECHNICAL AID NO. 82-2 


FEBRUARY 1982 


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This report presents a method for predicting nearshore significant wave 
height given the straight-line fetch length, the windspeed, and the nearshore 
water depth. The prediction curves were generated by numerically propagating 
offshore JONSWAP spectra shoreward while applying shoaling and wave steepness 
limitation criteria to each spectral component. Example problems are included. 


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PREFACE 


This report presents a method for predicting nearshore significant wave 
height given the straight-line fetch length, the windspeed, and the nearshore 
water depth. The wave height prediction curves were generated by numerically 
propagating offshore JONSWAP spectra shoreward while applying shoaling and 
wave steepness limitation criteria to each spectral component. The report pro- 
vides an alternate approach to the problem of shallow-water wave estimation. 
The work was carried out under the shallow-water wave transformation program 
of the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC). 


The report was written by William G. Grosskopf, Hydraulic Engineer, and 
Dr. C. Linwood Vincent, Chief, Coastal Oceanography Branch, Research Division. 


Comments on this publication are invited. 


Approved for publication in accordance with Public Law 166, 79th Congress, 
approved 31 July 1945, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 88th Congress, 
approved 7 November 1963. 


ED E. BESHOP 
Colonel, Corps of Engineers 
Commander and Director 


IV 


APPENDIX 


CONTENTS 


CONVERSION FACTORS, U.S. CUSTOMARY 
SYMBOLS AND DEFINITIONS. .... . 
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WAVE HEIGHT PREDICTION CURVES. . . 
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EXAMPLE PROBLEMS ~. 2. 2 2 2 «© «© « 
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METHODOLOGY AND GOVERNING SPECTRAL 


FIGURES 


TO METRIC 


EQUATIONS 


1 Transformation of JONSWAP spectrum in shallow water 


2 Dimensionless fetch versus dimensionless wave height as 
ay iROeEHom @ Glog G 6 0 6 0 0 0 0655 6 6 0 0.00 0 


3 Ratio, R, of windspeed overwater, Uy, to windspeed overland, UL, 


as a function of windspeed overland, Uj;...... 


4 Amplification ratio, RT, accounting for effects of air-sea 


temperature ditherenCeme ye caenmeiic ie) 6) 


5 Determining the fetch length of an irregularly shaped 
water body in the wind direction... . 


CONVERSION FACTORS, U.S. CUSTOMARY TO METRIC (SI) UNITS OF MEASUREMENT 


U.Se customary units of measurement used in this report can be converted to 


metric (SI) units as follows: 


x 10° 


Multiply by 
inches 25.4 
2-54 
square inches 62452 
cubic inches 16.39 
feet 30.48 
0.3048 
square feet 0.0929 
cubic feet 0.0283 
yards 0.9144 
square yards 0.836 
cubic yards 0.7646 
miles 1.6093 
square miles 259.0 
knots 1.852 
acres 0.4047 
foot-pounds 1.3558 
millibars 1.0197 
ounces 28.35 
pounds 453.6 
0.4536 
ton, long 1.0160 
ton, short 0.9072 
degrees (angle) 0.01745 
Fahrenheit degrees 5/9 


To obtain 
millimeters 
centimeters 

Square centimeters 
cubic centimeters 
centimeters 
meters 
Square meters 
cubic meters 
meters 
Square meters 
cubic meters 


kilometers 
hectares 


kilometers per hour 
hectares 
newton meters 


kilograms per square centimeter 


grams 


grams 
kilograms 


metric tons 
metric tons 
radians 


Celsius degrees or Kelvins! 


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SYMBOLS AND DEFINITIONS 


wave steepness limitation factor 
water depth 

energy density 

total energy in the wave spectrum 


straight-line fetch length (for irregularly shaped water bodies, this 
should be based on an average over a 24° quadrant) 


frequency of spectral component 

frequency of spectral peak 

acceleration due to gravity 

deepwater significant wave height 

significant wave height 

dimensionless wave height 

shoaling coefficient 

wavelength 

land-water windspeed correction factor 

air-sea temperature difference windspeed correction factor 
peak wave period 

windspeed to be used in wave height estimation 
overwater windspeed corrected for wind instabilities 
overwater windspeed 

windspeed measured Z meters above land or water surface 
10-meter (33 foot) windspeed 

dimensionless fetch length 


Phillips equilibrium constant 


ratio of maximal spectral energy to the maximum of the corresponding 
Pierson-Moskowitz spectrum 


3.14159 
left-side width of the spectral peak 
right-side width of the spectral peak 


wave steepness limitation factor 


wave steepness limitation factor 


6 


ENERGY LOSSES OF WAVES IN SHALLOW WATER 


by 
William G. Grosskopf and C. Ltmiood Vincent 


I. INTRODUCTION 


The energy in an irregular wave train changes as the waves propagate from 
deep water toward shore. Estimates of the total change in wave energy have 
traditionally been made by multiplying a shoaling, refraction and friction 
coefficient by an offshore significant wave height to yield the nearshore wave 
height. Recent studies of wave spectra have provided a more detailed view of 
the wave field and indicate that additional processes should be considered. 
This report presents finite-depth wave height estimation curves, given an ini- 
tial JONSWAP type of offshore spectral wave condition (Hasselmann, et al., 1973) 
generated over a short fetch and incorporating finite-depth steepness effects 
based on a study by Kitaigorodskii, Krasitskii, and Zaslavskii (1975). These 
curves represent energy changes due to shoaling and an upper limit of energy 
spectral density as a function of wave frequency and water depth. 


Research at the Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC) and elsewhere 
indicates steepness effects that lead to breaking in a shoaling wave field 
lead to a major loss of energy in addition to that lost by bottom friction and 
percolation. These effects can be incorporated into wave estimation curves in 
a fashion similar to shoaling because the effects can be made a function of 
depth. The effects of refraction, bottom friction, and percolation are not in- 
cluded in these curves because they are site specific. The effects of bottom 
friction and percolation will always be to reduce the estimated wave height. 
These curves should be applied only in areas of nearly parallel bottom contours. 
Consequently, refraction will also only reduce wave height. 


This report presents a method for estimating the significant wave height, 
Hs, given the fetch length, F, the overwater windspeed, Uy, (see U.S. Army, 
Corps of Engineers, Coastal Engineering Research Center, 1981), and the water 
depth, d, neglecting any additional wave growth in shallow water due to the 
wind. The method differs from two recently reported methods--Seelig (1980), 
who presents a method for predicting shallow-water wave height given deepwater 
wave height, Ho, peak period, Tp, and bottom slope, m, and Vincent (1981), 
who presents a method for calculating the depth-limited significant wave height 
based on knowledge of the deepwater wave spectrum--but it does not supersede 
the use of these other two methods. The report provides an alternate approach 
to the problem of shallow-water wave estimation given the four quantities men- 
tioned above. 


II. WAVE HEIGHT PREDICTION CURVES 


A series of JONSWAP spectra was generated numerically in deepwater condi- 
tions for varying windspeeds and fetch length, and propagated into shallow 
water over parallel bottom contours. A frequency-by-frequency calculation was 
made at various depths shoreward applying independently the wave steepness 
limitation criterion (Kitaigorodskii, Krasitskii, and Zaslavskii, 1975) and a 
shoaling coefficient to each spectral component. If the shoaled wave energy 
exceeded the limiting value, the limiting value was retained. A detailed ex- 
planation of the methodology involved in this computation is presented in the 


Appendix. Resulting spectra at gradually decreasing depths for a given case 
are shown in Figure 1. This analysis provides the wave height prediction 
curves shown in Figure 2. These curves provide the nearshore significant wave 
height, H,, at a given water depth which is related to the total energy, Er, 
in the nearshore wave spectrum by 


given the fetch length, the overwater windspeed, and the deepwater wave height. 
Note that in Figure 1 there is a slight shift in the wave period toward lower 
frequencies as the spectrum moves into shallow water. Later work will attempt 
to quantify this shift and incorporate bottom friction effects. 


III. USE OF CURVES 
There are certain restraints on the use of the curves which are as follows: 


(1) Curves are designed to be used for fetch-limited, wind-generated 
waves in deep water over short fetches, i.e., up to 62 miles (100 kilo- 
meters). 


(2) This analysis includes only the wave steepness criterion and 
shoaling. It does not reflect other energy losses such as refraction, 
friction, or percolation (parallel bottom contours are assumed). 


(3) The fetch length, F, is strictly the straight-line fetch 
unless the water body is irregularly shaped where the fetch would be 
based on an average over a 24° quadrant. 


U=49.2 t1/$ {15 m/s) 
F=65,600 fi (20,000 m) 
Curve |! 
Deepwater 
JONSWAP 
Spectrum 


d=131.2 (40m) 


d=32.8 ft (10m) 
d=19.7 ft(6m) 


0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 
Frequency 


Figure 1. Transformation of JONSWAP spectrum in shallow water. 


Deepwoter Wave Ho}. 


Hy? 1.6 x 103 /E Ua 


Peak Period 


A 


= F 
Dimensionless Fetch, X = “ae 


0.025 0.075 0.125 0.175 0.225 0.275 0.325 
Dimensionless Wave Hot., He gH, //? 
a 


Figure 2. Dimensionless fetch versus dimensionless 
wave height as a function of d/Ho. 


(4) To calculate the adjusted windspeed, 


Ua, the following pro- 
cedure should be used: 


(a) If windspeed is observed at any level other than 33 feet 
(10 meters) windspeed on land or water, the adjustment to the 33- 
foot level is approximated by: 


where Ujg is the 10-meter windspeed in meters per second, Z 
the height of wind measurement above the surface in meters, and 
Uz the measured windspeed in meters per second. This method 


is valid up to about Z = 66 feet (20 meters). If the windspeed 
was measured at 33 feet, Uj9 = Uz. 


(b) If windspeed was measured overland, correct to overwater 
windspeed by 


Uy 


1.1U;9 for F < 10 miles (16 kilometers) 


Uy = RUjq for F > 10 miles 
where U, is the overwater windspeed in meters per second; R 


is given in Figure 3. If windspeed was measured overwater and 
adjusted to a 10-meter height, U, = Uo. 


Example 2 
For U, > 36 


knots 
R=0.9 


| 
| 
| 
| 
| 


| 
Windspeeds are referenced 
to 10-meter level 


“o 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 kn 


35 40 45 50 55. 60 m/s 
45 mph 


Figure 3. Ratio, R, of windspeed overwater, Uy, to windspeed 
overland, Uz, as a function of windspeed overland, 
UL (after Resio and Vincent, 1976). 


(c) To correct for wind instabilities over fetch lengths 
greater than 10 miles: 


WA S Ossi weece 


where U, is the adjusted windspeed in meters per second. If 
the F < 10 miles, U, = Uy. 


(d) To correct for air-sea temperature differences, 


Ua = Rr UA for F > 10 miles 


UA for F < 10 miles 


Uy 


where U, is the new windspeed adjusted for the temperature dif- 
ference; Rp is given in Figure 4. 


10 


lL. 
hp x 
z 
09 x 
joa} 
0.8 


0.7 
-20 -15 -10 -5 {e) 5 10 15 20 
Air—Sea Temperature Difference (Gace) °¢ 


Figure 4. Amplification ratio, Ry, accounting for effects of air-sea 
temperature difference (Resio and Vincent, 1976). 


IV. EXAMPLE PROBLEMS 


kK kK kK kk kK KOK & KX EXAMPLE PROBLEM 1 * * *¥ * ¥ KK KKK KR KEKE 


GIVEN: Deepwater fetch, F = 24.9 miles (40 kilometers), adjusted 33-foot (10 
meter) windspeed, Ua = 65.6 feet (20 meters) per second (an example of com- 
putation of the adjusted windspeed can be found in U.S. Army, Corps of 
Engineers, Coastal Engineering Research Center, 1981). 


FIND: Significant wave height and peak period of the wave spectrum at depths 
of 23 and 9.8 feet (7 and 3 meters). 


SOLUTION: The dimensionless fetch, x is 


F (9.8 2) (40,000 
x= a = 980 = 9.8 x 10? 
Ua m/s 


The deepwater significant wave height and peak period are 


Hy S 1G & 10-3 JE ug = 1.6 -* 10-3, 402000 OO Al) S 2.0% messes 


vax ‘/3 20(980) “/3 Bee : 
= = ———__ = 5. seco 
DT 9.55 3.5(9.8) a 


In Figure 2 at x = 9.8 x 102 and interpolated between curves for d/Hg of 
3 and 5, reading down for H, 


H 
fe 22 | o.087 
UA 


Hs = 1.51 meters 


At a depth of 3 meters, d/Hg = 1.47, providing an H = 0.025 or Hg = 1.02 
Meters. The peak period, T,, and the local wavelength would increase over 
that at a 7-meter depth and currently must be calculated by the tables given 
in Appendix C of the Shore Protection Manual (U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, 
Coastal Engineering Research Center, 1977). 


AoA & & KKK KK KK KOK ® & EXAMPLE PROBLEM 2 * * * & ¥ & ¥ KR KK RK KK 


GIVEN: The wind direction is predominantly from the southwest over the deep, ~ 
irregularly shaped water body shown in Figure 5. The windspeed to be con- 
sidered is 49.2 feet (15 meters) per second measured on top of an instru- 
ment shack at 13 feet (4 meters) from the ground. The air temperature when 
these conditions occur is 50° Fahrenheit (10° Celsius) and the water tempera-— 
ture is 60° Fahrenheit (16° Celsius). 


e 
* Anemometer 


Site 
5 C) 
eS eee 


Scale in Kilometers 


Figure 5. The fetch length for this irregularly shaped water body in the wind 
direction is determined by drawing nine radials at 3° increments 
centered on the wind direction and arithmetically averaging the 
radial lengths as illustrated. The average fetch in this example 
is approximately 22.2 miles (36 kilometers). 


I2 


FIND: The significant wave height at a 16.4-foot (5 meter) depth just off the 
coast near the anemometer site. 


SOLUTION: The fetch is found by averaging over a 24° quadrant since the body 
of water is trregularly shaped. As shown in Figure 5, nine radials are 


constructed at 3° increments and the average fetch length of 22 miles (36 
kilometers) is found. 


The adjusted windspeed is found following the steps outlined previously: 


(a) Adjust wind from the 4-meter to the 10-meter level 


Wi, ia, 
Uio = (2) Uz = ee) (15) = 17.1 meters per second 


(b) Adjust overland wind to overwater wind with R from Figure 3 


U, 


Ww = RUio = 1.25(17.1) = 21.4 meters per second 


(c) Correct wind for instabilities 
= 0.71 Uwl:23 = 0.71(21.4)1+23 = 30.7 meters per second 


(d) Correct for air-sea temperature difference with Rr from Figure 4 
UA = Rr UA = 1,.17(30.7) = 35.9 meters per second 


The dimensionless fetch, x, is 


es 2 
oe a (9.8 m/s Sea m) = 273.7 
UK (35.9 m/s) 


The deepwater significant wave height and peak period are 


1.6 x 10-3 |5e2080 (35.9 m/s) = 3.5 meters 


a . SOC 
P 3.5(9.8) 


Ho 


= 6.80 seconds 


At a 5-meter depth 


eT ee 
aS ae a lols 
In Figure 2 at x = 273.7 and d/Hp = 1.43 
a mic 
He raya 0.012 
Uy 
and mn 
HU4 (0.12) (35.9)2 
Hg = ceri Womeyso2)" = 58 meters 


& 9.8 


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LITERATURE CITED 


HASSELMANN, K., et al., "Measurements of Wind Wave Growth and Swell Decay 
During the Joint North Sea Wave Project," Deutsches Hydrographisches 
Institut, Hamburg, Germany, 1973. 


KITAIGORODSKII, S.A., KRASITSKII, V.P., and ZASLAVSKII, M.M., "Phillips Theory 
of the Equilibrium Range in the Spectra of Wind-Generated Gravity Waves," 
Journal of Phystcal Oceanography, Vol. 5, 1975, pp. 410-420. 


RESIO, D.T., and VINCENT, C.L., “Estimation of Winds Over the Great Lakes," 
Miscellaneous Paper H-76-12, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, 
Vicksburg, Miss., June 1976. 


SEELIG, W.N., "Maximum Wave Heights and Critical Water Depths for Irregular 
Waves in the Surf Zone," CETA 80-1, U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, Coastal 
Engineering Research Center, Fort Belvoir, Va., Feb. 1980. 


U.S. ARMY, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, COASTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER, "Method 
for Determining Adjusted Windspeed, Ua, for Wave Forecasting," CETN-I-5, 
Fort Belvoir, Va., Mar. 1981. 


U.S. ARMY, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, COASTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER, Shore 
Protectton Manual, 3d ed., Vols. I, II, and III, Stock No. 008-022-00113-1, 
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1977, 1,262 pp. 


VINCENT, C.L., "A Method for Estimating Depth-Limited Wave Energy," CETA 81-16, 
U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, Coastal Engineering Research Center, Fort 
Belvoir, Va., Nov. 1981. 


APPENDIX 


METHODOLOGY AND GOVERNING SPECTRAL EQUATIONS 


1. Deepwater Representation of Fetch-Limited Wave Spectrum. 


A spectrum of wind waves, generated in deep water for a long period of 
time, is limited by the length of the fetch over which the wind is blowing. 
The wind will generate a spectrum with a shape which has been parameterized 
by Hasselmann, et al. (1973). The parameterization, or JONSWAP spectrum, pro- 
vides a functional relationship between energy and frequency as well as the 
windspeed, fetch length, and width of the spectral peak: 


ex (ffm)? 
E(£) = ag? (27)7* £75 ex |- 5 (£)-.| Y Nora (A-1) 
and 
o, for f < fm 
o = 
Cis asOie JE > Be 
where 
E = energy density 
F = fetch length 
f = frequency of wave component 
fm = frequency of spectral peak = 3.52/(Ui0 x */3) 
g = acceleration due to gravity 
Ua = adjusted 10-meter windspeed 
x = dimensionless fetch = gF/UA 
a = Phillips equilibrium constant = 0.076 x ~9:22 
Y = ratio of maximal spectral energy to the maximum of the corresponding 


Pierson—Moskowitz spectrum = 3.3 
Og = left-side width of the spectral peak = 0.07 


0, = right-side width of the spectral peak = 0.09 


This equation provides a wave spectrum as shown in curve 1 (Fig. 1), with a 
total energy equal to the deepwater significant wave height, squared over 16. 


15 


2. Energy Reduction in Shallow Water. 


As an irregular wave train enters transitional and shallow-water depths, 
the presence of the sea bottom causes changes in wave steepness which, due to 
the limitation on wave steepness, lead to a loss of wave energy. Kitaigorodskii, 
Krasitskii, and Zaslavskii (1975) suggest that an upper limit of energy exists 
at a given frequency which is a function of depth and a: 


E(f£) = ag? £72 (27)7"+ (A-2) 
) 
where 

Cy, tanh (wp, Gy) Sk 
d = water depth 
fol = 0.0081 

2 2 2 rae 
6 = Ch{l + [2up Cy/sinh(2up Cp) 1} 72 
Wh = Phine elie 


This equation represents a stability limit or "limiting form criterion" on a 
wave component. Kitaigorodskii, Krasitskii, and Zaslavskii used a value of 

a of 0.0081 based on field data. Recent work at the U.S. Army Engineer 
Waterways Experiment Station (WES) has indicated that another mechanism, non- 
linear wave-wave interaction, has an equivalent effect but that oa would vary 
with dimensionless fetch (gF/U4) . The application of this theory is further 
outlined by Vincent (1981). 


Shoaling of a wave in shallow water also changes wave energy. A shoaling 
coefficient can be calculated as in the Shore Protection Manual (App. C in 
U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, Coastal Engineering Research Center, 1977) for 
each frequency component according to linear theory: 


ke 2nd 4nd/L(£) Vee 
Kee) & ([tans | [2 SGI Gace) ) SS) 


and can be multiplied by the deepwater energy at each frequency band to obtain 
a "shoaled" spectrum, 


E(f) shoaled = Kg(f) E(f£) deep (A-4) 


3. Determination of Shallow-Water Energy Spectrum. 


Figure A-1l is a flow chart describing the solution process used in produc- 
ing the design curves presented in this paper. 


Generate deepwater JONSWAP spec- 
trum using equation (A-1) based 
on windspeed and fetch length. 


At each frequency compare energy from equation 
(A-2) with that from (A-4). The greatest of 
the two values at each frequency band is re- 
tained to form the spectrum at the particular 
shallow-water depth. 


Calculate significant height at the depth. 


No 


New 
deepwater 
fetch 


Figure A-1. Flow chart illustrating the use of equations (A-1) to 
(A-4) in generating the curves presented in Figure 2. 


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