SAMCoT - Annual Report 2015

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57 SAMCoT • ANNUAL REPORT 2015
WORK PACKAGE 6 (WP6)
The goal of WP6 is to develop new knowledge and the analytical and numerical models
needed by the industry to improve the prediction of Arctic coastal erosion and the influence
of climate change. These are essential for the design of environmentally friendly and
sustainable coastal structures and technologies.
In 2015 researchers in WP6 continued to analyse full-scale data from different sites in the
Arctic including Baydaratskaya Bay in the Kara Sea and Varandey in the Pechora Sea, Russia.
Progress was made on developing Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical (THM) constitutive models
for simulating the behaviour of frozen soils as well as research on numerical modelling of
sediment transport using a computational fluid dynamics model.
This research leads to a better understanding of the mechanisms behind Arctic coastal
erosion. In parallel with the field studies, major efforts have been focussed towards
developing numerical models that attempt to predict the effects of climate change and the
presence of man-made structures on the erosion rates in the Arctic.