Analytical investigation of hydrodynamic performance of a dual pontoon WEC-type breakwater
- Submitting institution
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University of Plymouth
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 98
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.apor.2017.03.012
- Title of journal
- Applied Ocean Research
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- First page
- 102
- Volume
- 65
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0141-1187
- Open access status
- Not compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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4
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This paper reports, through an analytical approach, that a two-pontoon floating breakwater, integrated with a wave energy converter (WEC), exhibits better performance than a single-pontoon system. Results vindicate the growing academic and industrial interest in integrating wave energy converters into coastal defences and demonstrate that a two-pontoon system is a more efficient design to develop. Integration has the advantage of cost-saving between WEC and coastal defence and reducing the amount of ocean space needed. Results have been used to verify Computational Fluid Dynamics modelling of more advanced integrated systems, identifying improved WEC geometries for coastal protection and wave energy extraction.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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