Flexible structures offer a cost-effective, environmentally friendly, and easily installable solution for coastal protection. This study numerically investigates the interaction between a solitary wave and a submerged vertical elastic plate using a fully coupled computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and computational solid mechanics (CSM) model. Model reliability was confirmed via a mesh convergence study, turbulence model selection and validation against existing experimental and numerical data. The effects of key parameters such as incident wave height, stiffness coefficient, mass coefficient, and Poisson's ratio were systematically examined. Results indicate that the incident wave height governs the degree of nonlinearity in the interaction, while the stiffness coefficient is the key structural parameter: its increase effectively reduces plate displacement and horizontal force but increases wave transmission and reflection coefficients. The mass coefficient exhibits negligible influence within the studied parametric range. Poisson's ratio shows limited sensitivity on wave coefficients but significantly affects structural responses (displacement and horizontal force). Based on the parametric study, a set of empirical formulae was developed to predict the wave transmission coefficient, reflection coefficient, peak horizontal load, and maximum horizontal displacement. These formulae provide a beneficial predictive tool for the design and performance assessment of submerged flexible structures.
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