Effect of Different Uneven Bed Topography on Performance of Pontoon Type Floating Breakwater Using Flow3D

Floating breakwaters have widely been used in the past and at the present. These types of structures have some important advantages in comparison with the rubble mound breakwaters, particularly in relation to the environmental issues. In the past, most of the studies for these kinds of breakwaters have been focused on flat beds, however, in practice, uneven bed topographies, especially in shallow coastal areas, can be an effective factor in performance of these structures. For the current study, the effect of various geometries of bed forms on performance of floating breakwaters was investigated using Flow-3D software. The incident waves to the model were irregular types and the wave energy spectrum was JONSWAP. The uneven bed forms were investigated in two categories. For the first group, singular uneven bed forms were considered whereas for the second category continuous uneven forms were considered.First, to investigate the effect of different geometries of single bed forms, three common modes of these bed forms as rectangular, trapezoidal with an angle of 70 degrees and a parabolic have been considered. Also, in order to investigate the effect of bed form height on floating breakwater performance, these uneven forms have been studied at different heights. The continuous bed forms were then simulated in two forms of sinusoidal and dunes with different dimensions. Based on the results of this research, it was found that the rectangular uneven bed form of the singular forms had a great influence on improvement of efficiency of the floating breakwater and with increasing its height the performance of breakwater increased. It was also found that the continuous bed form performed better than the all singular uneven forms modes With corresponding height. Finally, the numerical results showed that among the continuous uneven forms of dune shapes,