PREFACE 



This report is published to provide coastal engineers with a litera- 

 ture survey on mathematical modeling of shoreline evolution, which it is 

 hoped will lead the way in establishing a flexible and practical numerical 

 method suitable for predicting shoreline evolution resulting from the 

 construction of navigation and shore structures. The work was carried out 

 under the coastal structures program of the Coastal Engineering Research 

 Center (CERC) . 



The report was prepared by Bernard Le Mehaute, senior vice president, 

 and Mills Soldate, Tetra Tech, Inc. , Pasadena, California, under CERC 

 Contract No. DACW72-7T-C-0002. Funds for the preparation of this litera- 

 ture review part of the contract were provided by the^U.'S. Army Engineer 

 Division, North Central, Chicago, Illinois. 



The authors acknowledge the assistance of Dr. J.R. Weggel , CERC, and 

 Mr. C. Johnson, U.S. Army Engineer District, Chicago, in providing a list 

 of papers on the subject matter, along with pertinent comments relevant 

 to the situation in the Great Lakes. 



Dr. Weggel was the CERC contract monitor for the report, under the 

 general supervision of G.M. Watts, Chief, Engineering Development Division. 



Comments on this publication are invited. 



Approved for publication in accordance with Public Law 166, 79th 

 Congress, approved 31 July 1945, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 

 88th Congress, approved 7 November 1963. 



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TOHN H. COUSINS 



Colonel, Corps of Engineers 



Commander and Director 



