Wave attenuation properties of rubble mound breakwater in tandem with a floating dock against oblique regular waves
Mohamin B. M. Khan, R. Gayathri, Harekrushna Behera
Abstract
This work examines the impact of oblique wave action on a combination of a rubble mound breakwater and a floating dock. The influence of the breakwater on safety of the floating dock is examined in various configurations. The breakwater is approximated by a submerged trapezoidal structure and the floating dock by a surface piercing rigid rectangular structure. A numerical solution is developed combining the eigenfunction expansion method and the multi-domain boundary element method while assuming linear water wave theory. Reflection and transmission coefficients along with wave forces on the dock are evaluated and analyzed over a wide parameter range. The study reveals that the sloping angle of the trapezoidal breakwater plays a vital role in dissipating the wave load on the floating dock and the case of a trapezoidal breakwater with a vertical lee side faces is also examined. The reflection and transmission of waves are found to be dominated by the floating dock parameters in the system, while the wave forces on the dock are reduced by increasing the length and breadth of the breakwater and frictional coefficient of the porous structure, respectively. The combination of two structures in different tandem configurations is proposed as an effective coastal protection system.