Responses of Submerged Double Hull Pontoon/Membrane Breakwater |
Kee S.T.; |
Dept. of Civil Engineering, Seoul National University of Technology, Seoul, Korea; |
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© 2005 The Korean Society of Ocean Engineers
Open access / Under a Creative Commons License
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Keywords:
Flexible Membrane, Submerged/Floating Breakwater, Porous Coefficient, Eco-Friendlier Breakwater, Multi-Domains BEM |
Abstract |
The present paper outlines the numerical investigation of the incident wave interactions with fully submerged and floating dual double hull pontoon/vertical porous membrane breakwaters. Two dimensional five fluid-domains hydro-elastic formulation was carried out in the context of linear wave body interaction theory to study the wave interaction with the double hull of pontoon-membranes. The submerged circular pontoon is consisted of double hulls, which is filled with water in the void space between the outer structure and inner solid buoyant structure. Hydrodynamic characteristics of the proposed system with dual floating double-hull-pontoons filled with water have been studied numerically for the various incident waves. This study is a beginning stage research for the dual double hull porous pontoons/vertical porous membranes breakwaters which is ideally designed in order to suppress significantly the transmitted and reflected waves simultaneously. |
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