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Analysis of the Wave Attenuating and Dynamic Behaviour of a Floating Breakwater Integrating a Hydro-Pneumatic Energy Storage System [PDF]
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 Floating breakwaters have recently been generating increasing interest as a vital means to provide shelter and protect the ever-increasing number of structures deployed at sea.
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Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1968 The breakwater consists of a floating slab of breadth comparable to the length of the wave to be obstructed. Performance is improved by various arrangements of slots and mass-damping. The breakwater acts primarily by inhibiting the vertical component of orbital motion; there is a secondary action of energy dissipation by wave-breaking and eddy-making ...
A. J. Harris, N. B. Webber
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FLOATING BREAKWATER FOR RESERVOIR MARINAS
Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1970 The concept of multiple use of reservoirs is resulting in the construction of marinas for recreational boating requiring breakwaters that can function for a large range of water levels A typical set of design criteria is an average water depth of 20 to 25 feet, wave lengths from S to 60 feet (wave periods of from 1 to 4 seconds) and wave heights from J
Kenneth Chen, R L Wiegel
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Representative Transmission Coefficient for Evaluating the Wave Attenuation Performance of 3D Floating Breakwaters in Regular and Irregular Waves [PDF]
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021 Wave attenuation performance is the prime consideration when designing any floating breakwater. For a 2D hydrodynamic analysis of a floating breakwater, the wave attenuation performance is evaluated by the transmission coefficient, which is defined as ...
Huu Phu Nguyen +6 more
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Dynamic Analysis of an Array of Connected Floating Breakwaters [PDF]
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2019 In this paper, a model for dynamic analysis of array of floating breakwaters is developed and tested. Special attention is given to modeling connections between neighboring elements of the array. A linear three-dimensional floating multi-body formulation
Ivan Ćatipović +3 more
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International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, 2015 The water wave characteristics of Bragg reflections from a train of fixed floating pontoon breakwaters was studied numerically. A numerical model of boundary discretization type was developed to calculate the wave field.
Huei-Tau Ouyang +2 more
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RIGID BODY MOTION OF A FLOATING BREAKWATER
Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1984 Predictions of the dynamic response of a floating breakwater obtained from a frequency domain analysis are compared with full-scale field measurements. Those parameters prominently affecting accurate response predictions are identified and discussed.
Robert W. Miller, Derald R. Christensen
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Numerical Modeling of Interactions between Solitary Waves and Floating Breakwaters [PDF]
Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics, 2022 In the current numerical work, a 2D wave tank has been planned to explain the shared impacts among three different solitary waves and three different floating breakwaters by applying Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes models and the volume of fluid method ...
M. Tabatabaei Malazi +2 more
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Assessment of Scaled Boundary FEM-based model for solving wave interaction with π-shape Floating Breakwaters [PDF]
Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering, 2022 The principal aim of the current study is to examine a Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method (SBFEM)-based model to analyze the interaction problem between the water waves and moored floating breakwaters with sharp edges.
Meisam Qorbani Fouladi +4 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021 This paper investigates the effectiveness of floating breakwaters consisting of two barges (L-shape), three barges (U-shape), four barges (barge frame), and conventional single floating breakwater.
Chi Zhang, Allan R. Magee
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