Ocean wave energy is attractive for its large reserves, exploitability and low emissions.
Although many Wave Energy Converter (WEC) concepts have been proposed, high …

Floating breakwaters are an effective solution for protecting fragile beaches from being
washed away, coastlines from erosion, floating structures, marinas and ports from strong …

In this paper, a system which integrates an oscillating buoy type wave energy converter with
a vertical pile-restrained floating breakwater is introduced. A preliminary experimental study …

In this study, we investigated experimentally the hydrodynamic performance of floating
breakwaters with and without pneumatic chambers. The experimental results showed that …

The use of a simple, inexpensive, and effective type of floating breakwater is increasingly
becoming a necessity in shoreline and marine structure protection. This study concerns the …

Research interest in breakwater design has increased recently due to the impetus to
develop marine renewable energy systems, as breakwaters can be retrofitted to harness …

Extreme ocean surface waves generated during hurricanes or tsunamis can cause severe
damage to coastal communities and infrastructures, especially coastal bridges. In this paper …

The comprehensive utilization of floating breakwaters, specially acting as a supporting
structure for offshore marine renewable energy explorations, has received more and more …

In this paper,“wet” hydroelastic analysis is performed in order to investigate numerically the
hydroelastic performance of a free, flexible, mat-shaped Floating Breakwater (FB) that …

During the hydrodynamic analysis of the incident wave with the floating breakwater, the
viscous effect for example the vortex generation and the energy dissipation is one of the …