Characteristics of short-crested waves and currents behind offshore man-made island type power plant

Conference · Sun Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:260383

Ikeno, Masaaki; Kajima, Ryoichi; Matsuyama, Masafumi; Sakakiyama, Tsutomu ^[1]

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1. Central Research Inst. of Electric Power Industry, Abiko (Japan)

This paper describes the diffracted waves with breaking and the nearshore currents caused by short-crested waves, behind a man-made island, on which nuclear power plants are constructed. Firstly, hydraulic model tests with a multi-directional wave maker were performed. Effects of the irregularity and directional spreading of waves, and the effects of cooling water intake flow on diffracted waves and nearshore currents behind a man-made island, were investigated experimentally. Secondly, a numerical model was developed to simulate deformation of multi-directional irregular waves and nearshore currents. The validity of the numerical model was verified through comparison with the experimental results.

• OSTI ID: 260383
• Report Number(s): CONF-950604-; ISBN 1-880653-19-2; TRN: IM9632%%42
• Resource Relation: Conference: 5. international conference on offshore and polar engineering, The Hague (Netherlands), 11-15 Jun 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the fifth (1995) international offshore and polar engineering conference. Volume 3; Chung, J.S. [ed.] [Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)]; Maeda, Hisaaki [ed.] [Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)]; Kim, C.H. [ed.] [Texas A and M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)]; PB: 753 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

22 NUCLEAR REACTOR TECHNOLOGY
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
OFFSHORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
SITE CHARACTERIZATION
WATER WAVES
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
WAVE FORMS
TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS
ISLANDS