Effects of waves and currents on gravity-type cages in the open sea

Aquacultural Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 105-116

  Huang, Chai Cheng ^a   Tang, Hung Jie ^a   Liu, Jin Yuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Mooring line tension; Net cage; Oblique waves and currents; Volume reduction coefficient

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; GRAVITATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES;

MOORING LINE TENSION; NET CAGE SYSTEMS; OBLIQUE WAVES AND CURRENTS; VOLUME REDUCTION COEFFICIENTS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ALGORITHM; CAGE CULTURE; CURRENT VELOCITY; GRAVITY; MODEL TEST; MOORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPEN OCEAN; REARING; VOLUME; WATER DEPTH; WAVE FORCE;

EID: 39749126728     PISSN: 01448609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaeng.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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