NEW SIMPLE AND EXPLICIT FORMULA FOR WAVE REFLECTION ON MOUND BREAKWATERS USING NEURAL NETWORK MODELING

Wave reflection from breakwaters may influence beaches and the entrance of harbors due to dangerous wave conditions and may compromise the structure stability due to the induced scour at the structure toe. These problems will have a greater impact in the future due to climate change, sea level rise and stronger wave storms (Camus et al., 2019). The challenges of protecting coasts and harbors from the effects of global warming and the correct estimation of reflected energy from coastal structures demand more precise and easy-to-apply design formulas for mound breakwaters. Hence, the main objective of this work is to find an easy-to-apply and more precise explicit formula to estimate wave reflection on conventional mound breakwaters under non-overtopping and non-breaking conditions.