Despite the efforts of developers, investors and scientific community, successful development a competitive wave energy industry is proving elusive. One most important barriers against conversion efficiency devices compared with all associated costs over lifetime an electricity generating plant, which translates into very high Levelised Cost Energy (LCoE) to that other renewable technologies su...

The effect of a detached breakwater, which was constructed to improve harbor tranquility inside Pohang New Port, examined through the comparison wave data measured before and after construction breakwater. observation showed that energy effectively reduced by although height outside breakwater higher its construction. in all wave-propagating directions, but it also observed became less effectiv...

Estuarine shorelines have been degraded since humans arrived in the coastal zone. In recent history, a major cause of habitat degradation has been the armoring of shorelines with vertical walls to protect property from erosive wave energy; however, a lack of practical alternatives that maintain or enhance ecological function has limited the options of waterfront residents and coastal zone manag...

In 332 B.C., Alexander the Great constructed an approximately 1,000-m-long causeway to seize the offshore island of Tyre. The logistics behind this engineering feat have long troubled archaeologists. Using the Holocene sedimentary record, we demonstrate that Alexander's engineers cleverly exploited a shallow proto-tombolo, or sublittoral sand spit, to breach the offshore city's defensive impreg...

Planning and design of coastal protection works like floating pipe breakwater require information about the performance characteristics of the structure in reducing the wave energy. Several researchers have carried out analytical and numerical studies on floating breakwaters in the past but failed to give a simple mathematical model to predict the wave transmission through floating breakwaters ...

Dual boundary element method-based numerical investigations are carried out on the wave reflection, transmission, and dissipation characteristics of a breakwater made porous cage filled with rocks. To assess hydrodynamic performance, we analyzed three different configurations (namely conventional trapezoidal shape, rectangular, inverted trapezoidal) by keeping volume rocks fixed for all configu...