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Computational investigation on the hydrodynamic performance of a vertically submerged plate-type wave energy
Surendra Singh Yadav1, Sujit Roy2, Pushpendra Kumar Singh Rathore3
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, 143005, Punjab, India.
Scientific Reports
|March 25, 2026
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