The effects of reflection coefficient of the harbour sidewall on the performance of floating breakwaters

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 1102-1112

  Elchahal, Ghassan ^a   Younes, Rafic ^b   Lafon, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Diffraction radiation; Floating breakwater; Linear waves; Partial reflective sidewall

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BREAKWATERS; FLOATING BREAKWATERS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; MULTITASKING; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PORTS AND HARBORS; THEOREM PROVING; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; ELSEVIER (CO); ENERGY ACCUMULATION; INTERACTION OF LINEAR WATER WAVES; PARTIAL REFLECTION; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; RESONANT PEAKS; SHORT-WAVE (SW); STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS; UNBOUNDED DOMAINS; VERTICAL WALLS; WAVE HEIGHTS;

REFLECTION;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BREAKWATER; FLOATING STRUCTURE; MODELING; OCEAN WAVE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 46749136343     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2008.04.015     Document Type: Article

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