PARAMETRIC STUDY OF HYDRODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE OF TWIN-PANTOON FLOATING BREAKWATER

During the past decades, floating breakwater has been studied widely. This type of breakwaters is applicable in regions with calm sea conditions and with the increasing wave period, its performance decreases. In the case of using this type of structure in harsh sea conditions, a wider structure is required, which is not applicable in some cases. One of the proposed methods to solve this problem is to use floating breakwater with multiple-row arrangement and separate mooring. This study focuses on numerical simulation of double-row floating breakwater and row-distance parameter’s effect on system efficiency has been investigated. The most important effect of floating breakwater like any other breakwater is, reducing incoming wave height. Figure 1 illustrates a simplified sample of this breakwater with mooring lines to sea bed. According to this figure, waves are allowed to pass from the bottom part. [1]