In fact, it was observed that in certain cross sections, the airflow was more affected by the particular complex architectural features such as building extrusions and balconies, which were not represented in the simplified physical model tested in the laboratory, than by the real wind field variability.
We conducted two-dimensional physical model tests in a wave-current flume in the laboratory to measure the wave transmission coefficients of the three types of breakwaters under regular waves with or without currents.
Herein, we describe the features of our new cage net system, the formation of motion equations, a new approach to estimating the volume reduction coefficient, and physical model tests in a hydrodynamic wave tank.
A relatively inexpensive method, compared to physical model testing, of achieving this is to numerically model the structure and the wave conditions in a numerical wave tank.
Nine physical model tests, i.e. three tests in dry sands, three tests in submerged sands under undrained condition, and three tests under seepage condition were carried out.
The other physical model tested and preliminary analyzed in the paper is a straight pipeline fixed to the floor only with viscoelastic supports.
Physical model tests of floating facilities in deep and ultra-deep water with full-depth mooring system present obstacles because no wave basin is sufficiently large to perform model testing in reasonable scale.
Physical model testing was performed in the large-scale CIEM wave flume at UPC, Barcelona, as part of the SUSCO (swash zone response under grouping storm conditions) experiment in the Hydralab III program (Vicinanza et al., 2010).
All the results obtained from these different numerical models, together with the results of physical model tests as presented in Part I, are compared in this paper.
