Deformation of multi-directional random waves passing over an impermeable submerged breakwater installed on a sloping bed

✍ Scribed by Dong-Soo Hur

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 531 KB
• Volume: 31
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0029-8018
• DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2003.12.005

✦ Synopsis

This study investigates the wave deformation of multi-directional random waves passing over an impermeable submerged breakwater installed on the slope. Experiments were conducted in a three-dimensional wave basin equipped with a multi-directional random wave generator. Measurements of the free surface elevations around an impermeable submerged breakwater were carried out using 19 capacitance-type wave gages. In addition, a numerical model is proposed in three-dimensional random wave field. It is shown that the numerical results reproduce the general trend of the experimental results well. Investigations are made to study the effect of the spreading parameter S max and bottom topography (bottom slope and submerged breakwater) on the wave deformation. It is pointed out that concentration of wave energy with larger values of the spreading parameter S max is located within narrow limits in onshore side of the submerged breakwater. Furthermore, the supplementary discussion is made by means of numerical results.