This project is developed to demonstrate the amount of sediment that is being transported along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan in an attempt to simulate the shoreline erosion.

    Although there are many important aspects to coastal zone management, such as the environment, transportation, economics, biology, etc. the most important consideration and ultimate design criterion in a design for the coastal zone is often the movement of sediment. Sediment, moved by waves and wind, maybe academically divided into cross-shore and alongshore sediment transport. Sediment movement can result in erosion or accretion. Erosion normally results in shoreline recession; accretion causes the shoreline to move out to sea.

    The results provided by this project show how much sediment was taken away or deposited by the waves in Lake Michigan along the coast in order to simulate the erosion of the shore.

 

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This project is done by Zhoufeng Dai and Boyuan Lu as part of the Coastal Engineering class of 2017, the University of Wisconsin at Madison