NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF WAVE DAMPING MECHANISM OF TEMPORARY FLOATING BREAKWATER

Abstract

 A temporary floating breakwater has been proposed to keep calm wave conditions in an offshore construction site. In this study, its wave damping mechanism was investigated from numerical simulations. Numerical results showed that the trend of the transmission coefficient can be predicted reasonably well. Furthermore, an energy damping coefficient of the breakwater changed depending on the breakwater width relative to the wavelength, and the change was explained in terms of vortices formed inside and under the breakwater. From numerical experiments, it was found that the barrier height of the breakwater and the free water depth poured inside the breakwater for most effectively reducing transmitted waves were dependence on the breakwater width relative to the wavelength.