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　Minh Tuan Vu,Yves Lacroix,Viet Thanh Nguyen.Empirical Equilibrium Beach Profiles Along the Eastern Tombolo of Giens[J].Journal of Marine Science and Application,2018,(2):241-253.[doi:10.1007/s11804-018-0027-3]
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Empirical Equilibrium Beach Profiles Along the Eastern Tombolo of Giens

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Title:
Empirical Equilibrium Beach Profiles Along the Eastern Tombolo of Giens
Author(s):
Minh Tuan Vu1; 2;  Yves Lacroix1; 3;  Viet Thanh Nguyen2
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Author(s):
Minh Tuan Vu1; 2;  Yves Lacroix1; 3;  Viet Thanh Nguyen2
1 SEATECH, University of Toulon, 83162 La Valette-du-Var, France;
2 University of Transport and Communications, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam;
3 MEMOCS, Università Degli Studi dell’Aquila, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
Keywords:
Equilibriumbeachprofile; EasterntomboloofGiens; Exponentialfunction; Logarithmicfunction; Potentialfunction;  erosion;  and accretion
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DOI:
10.1007/s11804-018-0027-3
Abstract:
Beaches along the eastern branch of the Giens double tombolo are subject to coastal erosion. Prediction of the behavior of the beach profile configuration in response to natural and anthropogenic changes using the concept of equilibrium beach profile (EBP) could be useful in finding the most suitable measure to address the erosion problem. Field investigation data of 11 beaches along the eastern tombolo were supplied for this study, and a nonlinear fitting technique was applied to estimate the best parameter values of seven empirical formulations of the relevant EBP. All of the observed beach profiles could be described by a single function, but a single EBP was inadequate to represent all of the beach profiles observed. The variation found could be explained in terms of longshore variation of bathymetry, sediment size, and wave parameters. Analysis of the validity of the EBPs revealed that a representative EBP of each beach is governed by different equilibrium parameters.

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Received date:2017-04-07;Accepted date:2018-01-18。
Foundation item:This work was financially supported by the 911 Project of Vietnam International Education Development, Ministry of Education and Training, Vietnam.
Corresponding author:Minh Tuan Vu,mvu@univ-tln.fr
Last Update: 2018-10-11