Wave-island interactions about circular artificial islands. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The paper focuses on the behaviour of waves incident upon axisymmetric islands characterized by circular contours which vary with water depth. The island profiles described elsewhere by Arthur and Pocinki, which have closed form solutions, and a single tier conical island are examined. A new dimensionless formulation of Arthur's ray theory and an extremely accurate numerical procedure to evaluate the ray integrals are presented. It is shown that each island profile leads to a distinct wave pattern about the island. These wave patterns are presented in figures which portray the wave capture and the wave breaking about circular islands. (from author's abstract)

published proceedings

  • TRANS. ASME J. ENERGY RESOUR. TECHNOL.

author list (cited authors)

  • Niedzwecki, J. M.

complete list of authors

  • Niedzwecki, JM

publication date

  • January 2017