Author(s): Eva Loukogeorgaki; Theofanis Karambas
Linked Author(s): Theofanis Karambas
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Abstract: In the present work, the deployment of Wave Energy Converter (WEC) arrays for coastal protection against erosion is numerically investigated. Heaving cylindrical WECs are chosen to be installed offshore a coast and their effects on coastal hydro-morphodynamics are assessed. The simulation of the wave propagation, the breaking wave induced currents, the sediment transport and the bed morphology evolution is based on a numerical Boussinesq-type coastal hydro-morphodynamic model, which is appropriately extended to include the nonlinear wave-heaving cylinders interaction and the wave transformation induced by the WEC array. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the WEC array to mitigate coastal erosion and flooding.
Year: 2022