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My Publications

(a) Vithana, H.P.V. and Izumi, N., An Experiment on the instability of river mouth locations in pocket beaches, Journal of Coastal Research, under preparation for submission

(b)Vithana, H.P.V., and Hulscher, S.J.M.H., Sept.2002, Effect of wind wave breaking on the eddy viscosity profile to understand large scale morphology in tidal seas, Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas (PECS) Conference, Hamburg , Germany

(c)Vithana, H.P.V., Predicting offshore large-scale morphology for sustainable use of marine seabed in the North Sea, A Research proposal, Internal Research Report no. 2002W-006/WEM-006, University of Twente, The Netherlands

(d) Vithana, H.P.V. and Izumi, N.,2002, Experiments on pocket beaches, Netherlands Centre for Coastal Research (NCK) Symposium, Vlissingen, The Netherlands

(e) Vithana, H.P.V., 2001, Undertow currents in  prototype beach, 15th Australasian Coastal and Ocean
Engineering Conference, Brisbane

(f) Vithana, H.P.V., Izumi, N., 2000b, An analytical solution of tidal jets with variable bottom friction,  12th
Congress of APD-IAHR, Bangkok.

(g) Vithana, H.P.V., Sutat, W., Gunasinghe, A.A.S.K., 2000a, Sand spit formation in a simulated river mouth, 27th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Sydney, ASCE

Power Point Presentations

(a) The 15th Australasian Coastal and Ocean Engineering Conference, Brisbane, 25-28 September, 2001

(b) The experiments on pocket beaches, hydraulic laboratory, Asian Institute of Technology

- Presentation 1 (Experiments)

Slide 1, Slide 2, Slide 3, Slide 4, Slide 5, Slide 6, Slide 7, Slide 8

- Presentation 2 (Theory and Conclusion)

Other Research

(a) Appendix-B (A review of theory on bed roughness and shear stress due to wave-current interaction, wave induced roughness due to ripple formation and type of bed deposit)

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