Breakwat
Breakwat
Breakwat
applications
BREAKWAT 3 is a conceptual design tool for several types of coastal structures that are
subjected to waves. Rubble mound breakwaters with armour layers of rock material or concrete
units, berm breakwaters, vertical caisson structures, reef type structures and near-bed structures
can be designed using BREAKWAT 3 up to a conceptual design stage.
The first version of BREAKWAT has been released at the end of the 1980’s. Since then
BREAKWAT has been widely used by a large group of users at contractors, engineering
companies, universities, research institutes, etc. throughout the world. New developments in the
design of coastal structures, as well as software developments in general have been incorporated
in BREAKWAT 3. In the future, BREAKWAT will be updated with new design formulae based
on recent and future laboratory and field research.
BREAKWAT 3 uses modern design formulae to perform calculations of the hydraulic response:
wave height distribution
wave run-up
wave overtopping (empirical formulae and neural network)
wave transmission
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computer program
PC requirements
BREAKWAT 3 runs on the following
operating systems:
Microsoft Windows 95-98-ME-2000-
NT-XP
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computer program
selection of references
Battjes, J.A. and Groenendijk, H.W., 2000.
Wave height distributions on shallow
foreshores. Coastal Engineering, 40. p. 161-
182.
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