The book is organized in four parts 1 an overview of coastal engineering using case studies to illustrate problems 2 hydrodynamics of the coastal zone reviewing storm surges water waves and low frequency motions within the nearshore and surf zone 3 coastal responses including equilibrium beach profiles and sediment transport 4 applications such as erosion mitigation beach nourishment coastal armoring tidal inlets and shoreline management. Coastal processes with engineering applications inproceedingsdean2001coastalpw titlecoastal processes with engineering applications authorr dean and r dalrymple year2001 r dean r dalrymple published 2001 environmental science geology part i introduction to coastal processes 1 overview 2 sediment characteristics 3 long term processes part ii hydrodynamics of the . The book is organized in four parts 1 an overview of coastal engineering using case studies to illustrate problems 2 hydrodynamics of the coastal zone reviewing storm surges water waves and low frequency motions within the nearshore and surf zone 3 coastal responses including equilibrium beach profiles and sediment transport 4 applications such as erosion mitigation beach nourishment coastal armoring tidal inlets and shoreline management. Coastal processes with engineering applications robert g dean robert a dalrymple cambridge university press mar 25 2004 science 475 pages 0 reviews the worlds coastlines dividing