Wave damping over artificial Posidonia oceanica meadow: A large-scale experimental study

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 73, Issue , 2013, Pages 71-83

  Koftis, Theoharris ^a   Prinos, Panayotis ^a   Stratigaki, Vasiliki ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Artificial sea grass; Drag coefficient; Large scale experiment; Posidonia oceanica; Velocity attenuation; Wave damping

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SEA GRASS; LARGE SCALE EXPERIMENTS; POSIDONIA OCEANICA; VELOCITY ATTENUATIONS; WAVE DAMPING;

DAMPING; DRAG COEFFICIENT; ENERGY DISSIPATION; EXPERIMENTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; WATER WAVES;

VELOCITY;

DAMPING; DRAG; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW VELOCITY; MEADOW; OCEAN WAVE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEAGRASS; SHALLOW WATER; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE HEIGHT;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; SPAIN;

POSIDONIA OCEANICA;

EID: 84868676373     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2012.10.007     Document Type: Article

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