Beach wave s break in two types, the one is spilling and the other is plunging. The main factors which control these breaker types are the off-shore wave steepness and beach slope. In a coordinate plane of beach slope and off-shore steepness, the region of spilling breakers is separated from the region of plunging breakers by a definite curve. In the present paper, this curve is obtained on the experimental basis and some of its implications in beach processes are explained.
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Shōitirō Hayami (1958) studied this question.
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