Author(s)

E. Landel, P. Guerin, R. Marcer & C. Berhault

Abstract

The Eureka EU 394 project is concerned with the development of a under- water wave attenuation system for nearshore protection. Wave breakers are composed of fixed or moored submerged horizontal flat plates. To op- timize the efficiency of the breakers, numerical tools have been developed which analyse wave and current propagation and sediment transport from offshore to the coast. An extension of these tools has been performed to predict the wave fields inside marinas, induced wave loads on breakers and dynamic response of ships, pontoons and ro/ro systems. The paper mainly deals with the capabilities of these numerical tools. 1 Introduction Since 1990 Principia carries out research and developments on nearshore protection and on harbour engineering in the frame of an Eur

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