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iribarren number wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 definition 2 breaker types 3 references toggle references subsection 3 1 footnotes 3 2 other toggle the table of contents iribarren number 7 languages català español 日本語 nederlands português türkçe українська edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia dimensionless parameter spilling breaker plunging breaker collapsing breaker surging breaker breaking wave types free surface and bubble plumes as redrawn from photographs taken during a wave flume experiment 1 in fluid dynamics the iribarren number or iribarren parameter also known as the surf similarity parameter and breaker parameter is a dimensionless parameter used to model several effects of breaking surface gravity waves on beaches and coastal structures the parameter is named after the basque spanish engineer ramón iribarren cavanilles 1900 1967 2 who introduced it to describe the occurrence of wave breaking on sloping beaches 3 the parameter used to describe breaking wave types on beaches or wave run up on and reflection by beaches breakwaters and dikes 4 5 6 iribarren number ξ 0 as a function of wave height with constant beach steepness of 7 5 degrees iribarren s work was further developed by jurjen battjes in 1974 who named the parameter after iribarren 4 7 8 the importance of this parameter for so many aspects of waves breaking on slopes appears to justify that it be given a special name in the author s opinion it is appropriate to call it the iribarren number denoted by ir in honor of the man who introduced it and who has made many other valuable contributions to our knowledge of water waves jurjen a battjes surf similarity proceedings of the 14th international conference on coastal engineering 1974 4 definition edit the iribarren number which is often denoted as ir or ξ is defined as 5 ξ tan α h l 0 displaystyle xi frac tan alpha sqrt h l_ 0 with l 0 g 2 π t 2 displaystyle l_ 0 frac g 2 pi t 2 where ξ is the iribarren number α displaystyle displaystyle alpha is the angle of the seaward slope of a structure h is the wave height l 0 is the deep water wavelength t is the period and g is the gravitational acceleration depending on the application different definitions of h and t are used for example for periodic waves the wave height h 0 at deep water or the breaking wave height h b at the edge of the surf zone or for random waves the significant wave height h s at a certain location breaker types edit breaker types spilling plunging collapsing and surging further information breaking wave the type of breaking wave spilling plunging collapsing or surging depends on the iribarren number according to battjes 1974 for periodic waves propagating on a plane beach two possible choices for the iribarren number are ξ 0 tan α h 0 l 0 displaystyle xi _ 0 frac tan alpha sqrt h_ 0 l_ 0 or ξ b tan α h b l 0 displaystyle xi _ b frac tan alpha sqrt h_ b l_ 0 where h 0 is the offshore wave height in deep water and h b is the value of the wave height at the break point where the waves start to break then the breaker types dependence on the iribarren number either ξ 0 or ξ b is approximately 4 breaker type ξ 0 range ξ b range surging or collapsing ξ 0 3 3 ξ b 2 0 plunging 0 5 ξ 0 3 3 0 4 ξ b 2 0 spilling ξ 0 0 5 ξ b 0 4 references edit footnotes edit kjeldsen s p 1968 bølge brydning fysisk beskrivelse wave breaking physical description in danish technical university of denmark m sc thesis 110 pp real academia de ciencias exactas físicas y naturales spanish royal academy of sciences 2003 relación de académicos desde el año 1847 hasta el 2003 pdf in spanish pp 24 25 iribarren nogales 1949 1 2 3 4 battjes 1974 1 2 holthuijsen 2007 bruun 1984 iribarren cavanilles r nogales y olano c 1952 spanish practice in harbor design coastal engineering proceedings 1 3 13 13 doi 10 9753 icce v3 13 schiereck g j verhagen h j 2016 introduction to bed bank and shoreline protection delft the netherlands vssd isbn 978 90 6562 306 5 other edit battjes j a 1974 surf similarity coastal engineering proceedings 1 14 466 480 doi 10 9753 icce v14 26 bruun p ed 1984 design and construction of mounds for breakwaters and coastal protection developments in geotechnical engineering vol 37 elsevier pp xi 39 isbn 0 444 42391 5 goda yoshimi 2010 random seas and design of maritime structures 3rd ed world scientific p 213 isbn 978 9814282406 holthuijsen l h 2007 waves in oceanic and coastal waters cambridge university press p 242 isbn 978 1139462525 iribarren c r nogales c 1949 protection des ports proceedings xviith international navigation congress section ii communication vol 4 lisbon pp 31 80 citation cs1 maint location missing publisher link v t e fluid mechanics fluid statics hydraulics archimedes principle fluid dynamics computational fluid dynamics aerodynamics navier stokes equations boundary layer entrance length dimensionless numbers alfvén mach archimedes atwood bagnold bejan biot bodenstein bond brinkman capillary cauchy chandrasekhar damköhler darcy dean deborah dukhin eckert ekman eötvös euler froude galilei graetz grashof görtler hagen iribarren kapitza keulegan carpenter knudsen laplace lewis mach marangoni morton nusselt ohnesorge péclet prandtl magnetic turbulent rayleigh reynolds magnetic richardson roshko rossby 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