WAVE REFLECTION BY A NUMBER OF THIN POROUS PLATES FIXED IN A SEMI-INFINITELY LONG FLUME
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Keywords

wave reflection
porous plate
flume
semi-infinite flume

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Twu, S., & Lin, D. (1990). WAVE REFLECTION BY A NUMBER OF THIN POROUS PLATES FIXED IN A SEMI-INFINITELY LONG FLUME. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1(22). https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v22.%p

Abstract

The reflection of small-amplitude surface waves by a number of vertical porous plates is investigated . The plates are fixed in a semi-infinitely long channel of constant depth.Analytic solutions in dimensionless closed from are presented for the surface wave profiles in the several regions separated by these plates . And from them the reflection coefficient is obtained . Three cases , one to three porous plates, are evaluated. The results show that for incident waves in the range of 1/20 < water depth/wave length < 1/2 , it is appropriate to maintain the spacing between every two adjoining plates,and between the end wall and its nearst plate at a value of 0.88 times the water depth. As two or three porous plates are used for damping wave , an arrangement would be more effective if the front porous plate has a larger porosity and the back one has a smaller porosity. Several experimental tests for these porous-plate wave absorbers are conducted and the reflection coefficients are measured by using Goda's method. It is found that the theoretical solutions agree fairly well with the experimental results.
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