I am currently investigating a breakwater and how it will cope with climate change, particularly sea level rise. I have collected wave data and doing a hand calculation method to test the wave height from offshore to the breakwater and trying to show where the waves will break as the height to depth ratio is about 0.78. I have created MATLAB plots where the depth is the tidal range of the area which goes from 0.7m to 5.4m to Chart Datum. I have collect site measurements of the breakwater which are applied to the plots to show when the waves reach the breakwater as the tide comes in.
I am trying to show as the tide varies, at which point do waves break on the structure, if they do at all and then comparing this to a sea level rise of 0.64m RPC8.5 scenario. I found my 6.4 wave height works as the maximum possible breaking height against the structure and with sea level rise it moves down the structure due to change in depth. However, when i start showing smaller wave heights, its very difficult to see or show that the breaking points on the structure is different. I just need a second opinion on the plots as I'm not sure if they are showing the change properly or I'm just overthinking it as since the line is covers more of the rectangle, that therefore means more breaking wave will occur directly on the structure in the future.
There are a few assumptions made for this investigation for the data or equation calculations. I have included the equations and excel layout incase.
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