Christopher Daly

One of the main aims of this study is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the role of (i) wave forcing, (ii) environmental conditions and (iii) the geological setting in long-term embayed beach evolution. In doing so, a state-of-the-art morphodynamic model was used to simulate the evolution of a schematic embayment under idealized wave forcing conditions. Wave forcing is varied between a mixture of time-invariant and time-varying cases. Environmental conditions are varied by changing sediment size, tidal amplitude and mean wave height. The geological setting is varied by changing the angle of obliquity of the waves and the bay width.