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    Floating Breakwater: Project Descrip On - "Jadeweserport" (JWP)

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    The document describes a project to install a temporary floating breakwater at JadeWeserPort in Germany. Significant wave heights of up to 0.8 meters exposed the port to the northeast, exceeding the 0.5 meter limit requested for moored tugboats. Investigations were conducted using numerical models to analyze if a floating breakwater could provide sufficient wave attenuation as an alternative to an expensive sheet pile wall. Modeling results found that a floating breakwater could reduce wave heights by 10-30% for northern waves and about 20% for northeastern waves, achieving the required wave conditions of below 0.5 meters.

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    The document describes a project to install a temporary floating breakwater at JadeWeserPort in Germany. Significant wave heights of up to 0.8 meters exposed the port to the northeast, exceeding the 0.5 meter limit requested for moored tugboats. Investigations were conducted using numerical models to analyze if a floating breakwater could provide sufficient wave attenuation as an alternative to an expensive sheet pile wall. Modeling results found that a floating breakwater could reduce wave heights by 10-30% for northern waves and about 20% for northeastern waves, achieving the required wave conditions of below 0.5 meters.

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    The document describes a project to install a temporary floating breakwater at JadeWeserPort in Germany. Significant wave heights of up to 0.8 meters exposed the port to the northeast, exceeding the 0.5 meter limit requested for moored tugboats. Investigations were conducted using numerical models to analyze if a floating breakwater could provide sufficient wave attenuation as an alternative to an expensive sheet pile wall. Modeling results found that a floating breakwater could reduce wave heights by 10-30% for northern waves and about 20% for northeastern waves, achieving the required wave conditions of below 0.5 meters.

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    Floating Breakwater: Project Descrip On - "Jadeweserport" (JWP)

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    The document describes a project to install a temporary floating breakwater at JadeWeserPort in Germany. Significant wave heights of up to 0.8 meters exposed the port to the northeast, exceeding the 0.5 meter limit requested for moored tugboats. Investigations were conducted using numerical models to analyze if a floating breakwater could provide sufficient wave attenuation as an alternative to an expensive sheet pile wall. Modeling results found that a floating breakwater could reduce wave heights by 10-30% for northern waves and about 20% for northeastern waves, achieving the required wave conditions of below 0.5 meters.

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    Wilhelmshaven

    Jade Bay

    FLOATING BREAKWATER
    Project descrip on – “JadeWeserPort” (JWP):
    Within the extension of the JWP the construc on of a temporal port
    installed
    was planned. Due to its exposed loca on to the northeast this port floa ng breakwater
    would be affected by significant wave heights of up to 0.8 m, while for
    moored tugboats a comfortable wave height of 0.5 m was requested. sheetpile wall

    In order to replace a cost intensive protec on by a sheet pile wall


    (great water depths) inves ga ons on the wave a-enua on by a Figure 1: WAMIT setup with floating breakwater
    and substituted sheetpile wall
    floa ng breakwater were undertaken.

    Technical Background: (BW, WAMIT):


    • Boussinesq wave model to determine significant wave heights and calculate the wave disturbance
    coefficient (ra o of significant wave heights inside the port to those outlying).
    • Considera ons on wave a-enua on by integra on of a floa ng breakwater (calcula on of the
    wave reduc on factor within WAMIT)
    • Combina on of the BW and WAMIT results to final wave agita on inside the harbour

    floa ng breakwater

    Figure 2: a) significant wave height (BW) b) wave reduction factor (WAMIT) c) resulting wave height (BW+WAMIT)

    Conclusion:
    • Waves from eastern direc ons are beyond the cri cal significant wave height of 0.5 m.
    • The required wave condi ons can be achieved by installing a floa ng breakwater. Wave heights
    were reduced by about 10 –30% for northern waves and about 20% for north-eastern waves.

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