Short-crested wave-induced seabed response with variable permeability

The soil permeability of marine sediments varies with burial soil depth because of consolidation under overburden pressure. However, most previous investigations available for water wave-seabed interaction problem have simply assumed seabed with uniform permeability. This paper proposes an analytical solution to investigate the short-crested wave-induced soil response in a porous seabed with variable permeability. The pore pressure and effective stresses generated by a three-dimensional short-crested wave system are obtained from a set of equations incorporating a variable permeability. The numerical results indicate that the effect of variable permeability on the wave-induced soil response is significant.