Experimental investigation of floating wave energy converters for coastal protection purpose

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 80, Issue , 2013, Pages 148-159

  Zanuttigh, Barbara ^a   Angelelli, Elisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coastal defence; Experiments; Power production; Wave energy converters; Wave farm; Wave transmission

Indexed keywords

COASTAL DEFENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL AND AESTHETIC IMPACTS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLOATING WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS; POWER PRODUCTION; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS; WAVE ENERGY PRODUCTION; WAVE FARMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTS; SHORE PROTECTION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

COASTAL PROTECTION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INNOVATION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LABORATORY METHOD; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE POWER; WAVE REFLECTION; WAVE-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 84880333223     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2012.11.007     Document Type: Article

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