Floating pontoon breakwaters

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 221-240

  Williams, A N ^a   Lee, H S ^b   Huang, Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Floating pontoon breakwaters; Wave actions; Wave reflections

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MOORING; REFLECTION;

FLOATING PONTOON BREAKWATERS; WAVE ACTIONS; WAVE REFLECTIONS;

FLOATING BREAKWATERS;

FLOATING BREAKWATER; HYDRODYNAMICS; PONTOON;

BREAKWATER; FLOATING STRUCTURE; HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 0344549299     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-8018(98)00056-0     Document Type: Article

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