| Detailed Program The lectures will be conducted in the conference room (Room 2069) located in The Department of Civil Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khod, Sultanate of Oman. The tutorials will be conducted in the Computer Laboratory (Room 1014A) on the first floor of College of Engineering Main building. June 24, 2001 Time Contents Location 09:00-09:50 Introduction (coastal engineering applications, brief history, wave theories) Room 2069 10:00-10:50 Generation of wind waves (mechanism, methods of wave prediction) Room 2069 10:50-11:10 Coffee/tea break 11:10-12:00 Working with ACES program (Introduction, applications, tutorial) Room 1014A 12:00-13:30 Lunch break 13:30-14:20 Wave transformation I (shoaling, refraction, diffraction) Room 2069 14:30-15:20 Wave transformation I (tutorial) Room 1014A June 25, 2001 Time Contents Location 09:00-09:50 Wave transformation, II (Reflection, breaking, runup) Room 2069 10:00-10:50 Tides (generation mechanism, prediction) Room 2069 10:50-11:10 Coffee/tea break 11:10-12:00 Tide prediction using EXCEL (tutorial) Room 1014A 12:00-13:30 Lunch break 13:30-14:20 Coastal structures (pressure on a vertical wall, Sainflou theory) Room 2069 14:30-15:20 Coastal structures (breaking wave pressure, rubble mound structures, Hudson formula, typical breakwaters) Room 2069 June 26, 2001 Time Contents Location 09:00-09:50 Design of small craft harbor (Introduction, site selection, design criteria, 10:00-10:50 design: channel, protective structure position, wave absorbers, stone structures, sand bypassing) Room 2069 10:50-11:10 Coffee/tea break 11:10-12:00 Design of small craft harbor (wave prediction tutorial) Room 1014A 12:00-13:30 Lunch break 13:30-14:20 Design of small craft harbor (wave attenuation system design tutorial) Room 1014A 14:30-15:20 Design of small craft harbor (breakwater design tutorial) Room 1014A June 27, 2001 Time Contents Location 09:00-09:50 Sediment transport (mechanism, beach sediments, longshore transport rate) Room 2069 10:00-10:50 Ocean outfall design considerations Room 2069 10:50-11:10 Coffee/tea break 11:10-12:00 Summary and evaluation Room 2069 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |