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Study of Unconventional Alternatives to Vertical Breakwater

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Last updated: 23 Jan 2023

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Irrigation and Hydraulics

Abstract

The main objective of the breakwaters is to protect the port, the beach or the beach facilities from strong waves and storms, as they help to establish calm inside the port and thus achieve safety for ships, and ease of operation. This research aims to present study unconventional alternatives to vertical breakwater. In this study, two different models of vertical wave barriers implemented were chosen for their study and evaluation of the hydrodynamic performance. The first model is a vertical wall with circular slots and the second model is a vertical wall with square slots. A comparison was made between the two models it was found that the square slots reduce the transmission of waves more than circular slots by 5 to 20%. The use of two circular slotted walls decreases wave transmission by up to 30% and increases wave energy dissipation by up to 40% as compared to a single wall. With increasing relative length (h/L), the horizontal wave force rises. The relative wave forces (F/Fo), at porosity ( ) =0.25, was greater than at porosity ( ) = 0.50 by 10 to 30%. At the openings, the wave velocity is high, and the wave energy dissipation factor was also high; the higher the wave amplitude, the greater the wave energy dissipation factor.

DOI

10.21608/erjeng.2021.77106.1013

Keywords

Coastal, Breakwater, FLOW-3D, energy dissipation, vertical wall

Authors

First Name

karim

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Affiliation

Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, AL-Zhar University

Email

badrkarim713@yahoo.com

City

cairo

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Ibrahim

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Affiliation

Lecturer of Irrigation and Hydraulics, Faculty of Engineering, Al-Azhar University

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mohamed.ibrahim@gmail.com

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Volume

5

Article Issue

2

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24404

Issue Date

2021-06-01

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2021-05-22

Publish Date

2021-06-01

Page Start

49

Page End

55

Print ISSN

2356-9441

Online ISSN

2735-4873

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https://erjeng.journals.ekb.eg/article_179463.html

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1,606

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Journal of Engineering Research

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https://erjeng.journals.ekb.eg/

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Created At

23 Jan 2023