Experimental Study on the Sediment-Trapping Performance of Different Coastal Protection Structures in a High-Tidal Range Area

Dr. Hsin-Hung Chen is now working in the Tainan Hydraulics Laboratory at National Cheng Kung University. He received his BS degree in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering from Tamkang University, New Taipei City, Taiwan, in 1995. He received his MS degree in Civil Engineering from National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, in 1997, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Hydraulics and Ocean Engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. His research interests include coastal structures of security and detection, marine structures of scouring and scour protection, and physical model experiments.

Dr. Ray-Yeng Yang is currently a professor at the Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan. He received the B.S. degree in Power Mechanical Engineering Department from the National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1987, and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in the Institute of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1991 and 1995, respectively. He is the former Deputy Director of Tainan Hydraulics Laboratory, NCKU (2015–2017). He is currently the Executive Director of the Taiwan Society of Ocean Engineering and the Secretary General of the Taiwan Marine Industry Association. He is a TPC member of the International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers. He has expertise in ocean (coastal) engineering, ocean energy (wave and current energy), ocean environment science (internal wave & Langmuir circulation), hydrodynamic stability (double diffusion, finger convection), offshore structure (offshore wind turbine & marine aquaculture cage net), and physical modeling simulation. His academic work has been published in international renowned, scholarly journals including “Ocean Engineering”, “Journal of Fluid mechanics”, “Frontiers in Marine Science”, “IJOPE” “Energies”, “Ships and Offshore Structure”, “Ocean and Coastal Management”, “Journal of Marine Science and Engineering”, “IEEE Journal of Ocean Engineering”, “Applied. Science”, “Applied Energy”, etc.