Burial and Scour of Short Cylinders and Truncated Cones due to Long-Crested and Short-Crested Nonlinear Random Waves Plus Currents

This paper provides a practical stochastic method by which the burial and scour depths of short cylinders and truncated cones exposed to long-crested (2D) and short-crested (3D) nonlinear random waves plus currents can be derived. The approach is based on assuming the waves to be a stationary narrow-band random process, adopting the Forristall [1] wave crest height distribution representing both 2D and 3D nonlinear random waves. Moreover, the formulas for the burial and the scour depths for regular waves plus currents presented by Catano-Lopera and Garcia [2, 3] for short cylinders and Catano-Lopera et al. [4] for truncated cones are used.