In the “Blue Bay Remediation Action” project, the oyster reef plays the dual role of ecological restoration and wave suppression, and the study of the effect of oyster reef wave dissipation forms the basis of relevant projects. Taking the...
A novel time-domain Green’s function is developed for dealing with two-dimensional interaction between water waves and floating bodies with considering viscous dissipation effects based on the “fairly perfect fluid” model. In the Green’s function, th...
This study presents novel analytical solutions for analyzing wave dissipation effect and bottom flow field characteristics of permeable submerged horizontal plates through physical model trials. The experimental results show that a solid submerged ho...
Hydraulic transients may pose a critical threat to process operation due to devastating surge waves. This paper investigates hydraulic surge and damping control associated with pipe flow modeling and valve optimization. A one-dimensional transient mo...
In this work, the hydrodynamic performance of a novel wave energy converter (WEC) configuration which combines a moonpool platform and a javelin floating buoy, called the moonpool–javelin wave energy converter (MJWEC), was studied by semianalyt...
This analysis investigated the impact wave response and propagation on a composite sandwich shell when subjected to a low-velocity external shock, considering hygrothermal effects. The sandwich shell was crafted using face layers composed of function...
In this study, the effects of a submerged shell dike in front of a breakwater on dissipating broken waves were studied. The dissipation effects of different broken wave heights and the submerged shell dike were investigated through numerical simulati...
This paper utilizes ANSYS-AQWA hydrodynamic simulation analysis software (2022 R2) to investigate the wave dissipation performance of an Oscillating Water Column (OWC) perforated floating breakwater under irregular wave conditions. The study examines...
Mangroves offer vital ecological advantages including air and water filtration, coastal and estuarine habitat provision, sediment stabilization, and wave energy dissipation. Their intricate root systems play a key role in safeguarding shorelines from...
We study the atmospheric structure in response to the propagation of gravity waves under nonisothermal (nonzero vertical temperature gradient), wind-shear (nonzero vertical zonal/meridional wind speed gradients), and dissipative (nonzero molecular vi...
Gravity-capillary waves at the water surface are an obvious example illustrating wave propagation in the laboratory, and also nonlinear wave phenomena such as wave interactions or wave turbulence. However, at high-enough frequencies or small scales (...
Flume experiments were performed to test four plant mimics with different stiffness to reveal the effect of plant stiffness on the wave dissipation and turbulence process. The mimics were built of silica gel rod groups, and their bending elastic modu...
The interaction between waves and slotted vertical walls was experimentally studied in this research to examine the performance of the structure in terms of wave transmission, reflection, and energy dissipation. Single and twin slotted barriers of di...
Numerical experiments of wave-current interaction have been performed to investigate the evolution and dissipation of horizontal large-scale vortical structures generated by differential wave breaking and current shearing at river mouths. Specific fo...
The aim of this work is to study the behavior of reflection of a longitudinal wave at a free surface of dissipative half-space under the effects of compressive initial stresses. When a longitudinal wave is incident on the free surface of an elastic d...
Coral reefs are effective natural flood barriers that protect adjacent coastal communities. As the need to adapt to rising sea levels, storms, and environmental changes increases, reef restoration may be one of the best tools available to mitigate co...
This study develops a two-dimensional numerical model to investigate the hydrodynamic performance of a floating breakwater coupled with flexible wave-dissipating structures (FWDS). The model integrates the immersed boundary method with a finite eleme...
This study analyzes the hydrodynamic performance of a V-type wave dissipation system and amphibious landing equipment under different combined fields using the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) method. A three-dimensional numerical wave ta...
To align with contemporary concepts of low-carbon and environmental protection, a new type of bucket-shaped permeable breakwater, based on the prototype of the bucket-based breakwater in Xuwei Port Area, Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, China, was prop...
This study investigates the Bragg resonance characteristics of multiple independently moored floating breakwaters and their wave attenuation performance using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model, OpenFOAM. The numerical framework is validated...
Revetment elements and protective facilities on a breakwater can effectively weaken the impact of waves. In order to resist storm surges, there is a plan to build a breakwater on the northern shore of Meizhou Bay in Putian City, China. To better desi...
A comb-type floating breakwater is a new wave dissipation structure with particular force and dissipation performance advantages due to the two wave-reflecting surfaces. In this article, physical model experiments are used to study the hydrodynamic c...
The permeable submerged breakwater has gained popularity in recent days due to its merits of reducing incident wave energy without negatively impacting the aesthetics of the ocean view and allowing for water exchange. However, the effect of porosity...
Coastal protection solutions can be categorised as grey, hybrid or natural. Grey infrastructure includes artificial structures like dykes. Natural habitats like seagrasses are considered natural protection infrastructure. Hybrid solutions combine bot...
This study investigates the combined effect of the breaking and energy dissipation of water waves by variable bottoms across the surf zone. The shoreline is set up as a partially reflecting vertical wall in the solution technique, with shelves betwee...
The main goal of the paper is to compare the effects of the wave spectrum, computed using the Discrete Interaction Approximation (DIA) and the Webb–Resio–Tracy (WRT) methods, on statistical wave properties such as skewness and kurtosis in...
The geometry of the Long Island Sound (LIS) renders the wave field fetch-limited and leads to marked differences between western and eastern areas. The mechanisms that contribute to the formation and dissipation of waves in the LIS are not well under...
Electromagnetic wave dissipation is experienced in radiative absorbing-emitting processes and signal transmissions via media. The absorbed wave initiates thermal processes in the conducting medium. Conversely, thermal processes generate electromagnet...
This paper is concerned with the modeling and analysis of quantum dissipation and diffusion phenomena in the Schrödinger picture. We derive and investigate in detail the Schrödinger-type equations accounting for dissipation and diffusion effects. Fro...
Generation and propagation of waves in a numerical wave tank constructed using Weakly Compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (WCSPH) are considered here. Numerical wave tank simulations have been carried out with implementations of different We...
Integrating wave energy converters with breakwaters is a promising concept for wave energy utilization. On the basis of fulfilling the wave protection demands, pile-supported Oscillating Water Column (OWC)-type breakwaters can also meet the local nee...
Posidonia Oceanica (PO) is an endemic marine plant in the Mediterranean Sea. In an experimental study conducted in the Eastern Mediterranean, the effects of natural PO leaves on reducing the height of incident waves impacting a beach were measured. T...
Communication blackout is always a serious threat to the flight tasks of modern hypersonic vehicles moving in near space. EHF communication is considered as a potential solution to the blackout problem. Nevertheless, EHF waves suffer from severe atte...
We consider the reduced constrained linear Cosserat continuum, a particular type of a Cosserat medium, for three different material behaviors or symmetries: the isotropic elastic case, a special type of elastic transversely isotropic case, and the is...
The two-dimensional Maccari nonlinear system performs the energy and wave dynamical features in fiber communications and modern physical science as hydrodynamic and space plasma. Several new forms of solutions for the Maccari’s model are constr...
Cliff-attached structures are structures attached to slopes and connected tightly, which is particularly complex to analyze due to the foundations’ unequal grounding and the lateral stiffness’ irregularity. In rare earthquakes, seismic waves are usua...
Implementing shoreface nourishment is an effective method to protect sandy beaches. A better understanding of the equilibrium mechanism of shoreface nourishments is necessary for coastal engineering designs and constructions. Two experiments on the b...
A two-dimensional viscous numerical wave tank coded mass source function in a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software Flow-3D 11.2 is built and validated. The effect of the core influencing factors (draft, breakwater width, wave period, and wave...
The presence of wave coherence, which contributes to the inhomogeneity of wave characteristics and significantly affects wave processes over nearshore regions of the Yellow River Delta (YRD), was simulated and analyzed in this study. A phase-resolvin...
The semi-circular breakwater (SBW) has been implemented at numerous global locations due to its outstanding wave dissipation effectiveness and high structural performance. This study extends prior research by investigating the seabed dynamic response...
Explosion chambers are crucial to the technology used to prevent coal mine gas explosions. Investigating the shock wave propagation law at various coal mine tunnel cross-sections helps ensure mine safety. A self-built, highly explosive experimental s...
Wave energy conversion holds promise for renewable energy, but challenges like high initial costs hinder commercialization. Integrating wave-energy converters (WECs) into shore-protection structures creates dual-function structures for both electrici...
Coastal defence works, such as breakwaters, are structures that aim to support the action of waves and dissipate their energy. Therefore, they provide conditions for stabilizing the coast, protecting ports, beaches and other coastal infrastructures a...
Due to increasing coastal flooding and erosion in changing climate and rising sea level, there is a growing need for coastal protection and ecological restoration. Artificial sandbars have become popular green coastal infrastructure to protect coasts...
A three-dimensional numerical model was established based on ANSYS-AQWA (R19.0) software for the purpose of analyzing the hydrodynamic characteristics of a floating breakwater. This study examines three distinct floating breakwaters with different cr...
Slopes suffer damage from waves in coastal environments. Precast blocks with well-designed geometrical characteristics can benefit the construction of revetments by mitigating the issue of wave overtopping and dissipating wave energy. In this study,...
The water–cement ratio significantly affects the mechanical properties of concrete with changes in porosity serving as a key indicator of these properties, which are correlated with the ultrasonic wave velocity and energy evolution. This study...
This study introduces a mechanical spectrum analyzer (MSA) inspired by the tonotopic organization of the basilar membrane (BM), designed to achieve two critical features. First, it replicates the traveling-wave behavior of the BM, characterized by en...
Considering the elastic–plastic deformation, the wave propagations and energy transmissions of the one-dimensional three-segment composite granular chain are studied. The axial symmetry model for elastic-perfectly plastic materials is built by...
In order to protect fragile shoreline and coastal assets during extreme storms, a combined floating breakwater-windbreak has been proposed to reduce both wind and wave energies in the sheltered area. The 1 km-long breakwater has a porous hull with in...
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