Morfologia del Saliente di Is Morus – Pula (CA) e idrodinamica attorno allo scoglio antistante

Submerged structures are becoming increasingly popular due to their capacity of providing necessary beach protection without negative aesthetic impacts. Although large literature is available, the shoreline response to submerged structures is not well understood at the present. Results show that these structures may induce shoreline erosion as well as shoreline accretion. This paper aims to present the results of numerical physical modeling tests applied to the Is Morus beach (Sardinia) where a natural submerged reef has created a widening of the beach in the form of salient. Results are in accordance with empirical relationships provided by literature for predicting salient shape and geometrical properties.