INVESTIGATION OF SEDIMENT DEPOSITS NEAR TRANSVERSE STRUCTURES.

The most prevalent marine hydraulic structures are those of a transverse type, by which is meant coastal hydraulic structures oriented perpendicularly (or close to it) to the shoreline and to one degree or another covering the cross section of the longshore wave current. They are used independently or are components of sediment-regulating and coastal-protection complexes. In the space bounded by the shoreline and body of the structure (reentrant angle of the transverse structure) the process of development of an aggradational body related to the deposition there of the sediments of the longshore current begins. The evolution of sediment deposits here is studied both by the method of physical (hydraulic) and mathematical modeling, which are closely related and complement each other. The data of prototype observations are also used.