Experimental study of a porous floating breakwater

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 520-527

  Wang, H Y ^a   Sun, Z C ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Floating breakwater; Mooring force; Physical experiment; Porous; Transmission coefficient

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; INCIDENT WAVE ENERGY; INCIDENT WAVES; MOORING FORCE; PER UNIT LENGTH; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; POROUS; REFLECTED WAVES; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS; TRANSMITTED WAVES; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE HEIGHTS;

EXPERIMENTS; FLOATING BREAKWATERS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; MOORING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; WATER WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

COASTAL ENGINEERING;

BREAKWATER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOATING STRUCTURE; MOORING SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POROUS MEDIUM; WAVE REFLECTION; WAVE-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 77649275006     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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