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Synolakis runup law: a standalone construct

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Coastal engineering

analytical result that the maximum runup of a non-breaking solitary wave on a plane beach grows with wave height to the five-fourths power and with beach steepness.

In coastal engineering, Synolakis runup law refers to analytical result that the maximum runup of a non-breaking solitary wave on a plane beach grows with wave height to the five-fourths power and with beach steepness. This meaning comes from Synolakis (1987) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics.[1]

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References

Synolakis, C. E. (1987). The runup of solitary waves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 185, 523-545. https://doi.org/10.1017/s002211208700329x

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