Floating breakwater response to waves action using a Boussinesq model coupled with a 2DV elliptic solver

Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 243-255

  Koutandos, E V ^a   Karambas, Th V ^b   Koutitas, C G ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; WATER WAVES;

DYNAMIC EQUATION; WAVE ACTION;

FLOATING BREAKWATERS;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; BREAKWATER; COASTAL STRUCTURE; FLOATING BREAKWATER; FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELING;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; BREAKWATER; COASTAL STRUCTURE; FLOATING STRUCTURE; FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 4444264117     PISSN: 0733950X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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