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The Modified Coastal Storm Impulse Parameter, Sayed Gholamreza Mahmoudpour
The Modified Coastal Storm Impulse Parameter, Sayed Gholamreza Mahmoudpour
Civil & Environmental Engineering Theses & Dissertations
The correlation of the morphological changes to the coast and storm characteristics is among interests of coastal engineers. Better understandings of a storm's potential forces ultimately lead engineers to safer designs and minimize the damages. Therefore, a need to quantify the storm potential forces to a storm parameter is evident. The desired storm parameter is to consider all the relative physical factors and is to present realistic results that then can be proven by actual nature response.
The concept of Coastal Storm Impulse (COSI) parameter was first introduced by Basco and Klentzman (2006) and is based on the conservation of …
Evaluation Of Ocean-Energy Conversion Based On Linear Generator Concepts, Michael Allen Stelzer
Evaluation Of Ocean-Energy Conversion Based On Linear Generator Concepts, Michael Allen Stelzer
Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations
A turbine generator is a device that converts mechanical rotation into electrical energy. Unfortunately, the primary driving force that has been used to provide this rotation has, thus far, been fossil fuels. Although fossil fuels have proven to be a reliable resource to continually supply the growing demand for electrical power, they are not without their financial and environmental drawbacks. With the continuously increasing demand for energy, it is hypothesized that the world may, in time, exhaust this precious natural resource and/or inflict permanent environmental damage upon our planet.
However, motions that occur in nature, such as ocean waves, can …