Integration of Wave Energy Converters (WECs) with floating breakwater system provides a multi-function solution to wave energy extraction and offshore infrastructural protection. The contribution this work is guide the optimal size configuration multi-purpose platform including moonpool-type an array heaving oscillating-buoy (OB) WECs. investigation performed using developed time-domain numeric...

A comb-type floating breakwater is a new wave dissipation structure with particular force and performance advantages due to the two wave-reflecting surfaces. In this article, physical model experiments are used study hydrodynamic characteristics of fixed comb structural optimization-based measures under combined action regular waves, irregular currents. The effects factors such as relative widt...

KOMAR, P.D., 2010. Shoreline evolution and management of Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand: tectonics, coastal processes, and human impacts. Journal of Coastal Research, 26(1), 143–156. West Palm Beach (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. The evolution of the coast of Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, and its erosion problems have been governed by multiple factors, including its tectonic setting with an earthquake in 193...