Shorelines around the world are rarely smooth and they can present undulations and cuspate shapes. On the one hand, human actions can cause shoreline perturbations via beach nourishments, which in turn perturb the wave field that drives the morphological changes. On the other hand, there can be natural perturbations in the coastal system due to positive feedbacks between the wave forcing and the evolving bathymetric contours. In this thesis, the dynamics of mega-nourishments and shoreline sand waves are investigated. A morphodynamic model based on the wave-driven alongshore sediment transport, including cross-shore transport in a simplified way and neglecting tides, is improved and applied to the Zandmotor mega-nourishment on the Dutch D...