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Bhattacharjee, J. and Guedes Soares, C. (2011), “Vertical porous membrane barrier for coastal structure near a wall” , Coastal and Maritime Mediterranean Conference, 22-24 November, Tangiers, Morocco

The performance of a vertical porous membrane barrier as a breakwater to reduce the wave load on a floating structure near a wall is investigated using linearized water wave theory. The physical problem is modeled in the two dimensional Cartesian coordinate system. A rigid rectangular box is floating in water of finite depth near a rigid vertical wall. The porous membrane breakwater touches the bottom and the tip of the membrane is submerged. Both ends of the membrane are assumed to be kept fixed. The method of eigenfunction expansion and the corresponding orthogonal mode-coupling relations are used to obtain an analytic solution to the boundary value problem. The effect of porosity and tension of the membrane on the wave transmission, wave length and wave amplitude is analyzed.

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