Near-shore floating wave energy converters: Applications for coastal protection

Proceedings of the Coastal Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ruol, Piero ^a   Zanuttigh, Barbara ^b   Martinelli, Luca ^b   Kofoed, Jens Peter ^c   Frigaard, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Coastal defence; DEXA; Efficiency; Experiments.; Wave energy converters; Wave transmission

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC; COASTAL DEFENCE; COASTAL PROTECTION; DEXA; FLOATING WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS; NEARSHORES; PHYSICAL MODEL TEST; TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS; WAVE HEIGHTS;

EFFICIENCY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SHORE PROTECTION; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

WAVE POWER;

EID: 84864449625     PISSN: 01613782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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