Review of developments in porous membranes and net-type structures for breakwaters and fish cages

YC Guo, SC Mohapatra, CG Soares - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
A literature review is presented on the theoretical, numerical, and experimental progress
made in the application of porous membranes and net-type structures to breakwaters and …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental and numerical investigation of WEC-type floating breakwaters: A single-pontoon oscillating buoy and a dual-pontoon oscillating water column

Y Cheng, L Fu, S Dai, M Collu, C Ji, Z Yuan… - Coastal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Wave energy converters (WECs) integrated into floating breakwaters or, more generally,
their designs also used as wave absorbers can provide a space-and cost-sharing solution to …

Study on the hydrodynamics of a twin floating breakwater by using SPH method

Y Chen, Y Liu, DD Meringolo, J Hu - Coastal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Numerical and experimental studies are performed on the hydrodynamics including wave-
attenuation performances measured by the transmission and reflection coefficients and …

Interaction between solitary waves and a combined structure of two concentric asymmetric porous arc walls

Z Zhai, S Zheng, D Wan - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
An analytical model based on the linear potential flow theory is developed to study the
diffraction problem of solitary wave interaction with a combined structure of two thin …

Numerical investigation on the hydrodynamic behavior of a floating breakwater with moon pool through a coupling SPH model

J Cui, X Chen, PN Sun, MY Li - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The moon pool opened in a floating structure significantly affects its wave attenuating
performance. In this paper, the hydrodynamic behaviors of several floating breakwaters with …

Numerical studies of submerged moored box-type floating breakwaters with different shapes of cross-sections using SPH

Z Liu, Y Wang - Coastal Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
The wave-attenuation performances and hydrodynamics of moored box-type floating
breakwaters with the same weight, same wall thickness, and six different cross-sections, ie …

Computational and experimental studies of wave–structure interaction: Wave attenuation by a floating breakwater

NN Peng, WK Lau, OWH Wai, KW Chow - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Interactions between surface gravity waves and a floating rigid body are complex, as waves
may reflect from, break on, and be transmitted behind the body. Studies of these phenomena …

Reflected wave energy by two collinear submerged wavy breakwaters

O Cuevas, E Bautista, F Méndez - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Under the assumption of a potential flow, we obtain an asymptotic solution up to the second
order in a regular expansion, for the problem of the interaction between linear long waves …

Wave attenuation and focusing by a parabolic arc pontoon breakwater

J Ren, P Jin, Y Liu, J Zang - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
In the multifunctional system consisting of point absorber wave energy converters and a
pontoon breakwater, the breakwater plays an essential role in attenuating waves on the lee …

Numerical investigation on the hydrodynamic performance of a new designed breakwater using smoothed particle hydrodynamic method

J Cui, X Chen, P Sun - Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 2021 - Elsevier
Floating breakwaters have better performance than fixed breakwaters in deep water
conditions owing to their higher durability and lower cost. To evaluate the hydrodynamics of …