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Raghavan, V. (author), Simonetti, Irene (author), Metrikine, A. (author), Lavidas, G. (author), Cappietti, Lorenzo (author)The Oscillating Water Column (OWC) wave energy converter has been shown to have high potential, thus rendering extensive development in recent years. In order to further accelerate its development, highly accurate yet computationally efficient tools are necessary particularly when studying the interaction of multiple OWC devices. This paper...journal article 2024
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Satymov, Rasul (author), Bogdanov, Dmitrii (author), Dadashi, Mojtaba (author), Lavidas, G. (author), Breyer, Christian (author)Climate change is driving the adoption of sustainable energy, with low-cost solar photovoltaics and wind power at the forefront. However, land-constrained regions and islands have a limited onshore renewable energy potential. Wave power may prove useful for such regions, supported by growing literature in the field. This study delves into...journal article 2024
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Guillou, Nicolas (author), Lavidas, G. (author), Kamranzad, Bahareh (author)Refined numerical wave energy resource assessments are required to reduce uncertainties in the evaluation of available power and energy production. However, to restrict the computational cost, a great part of wave hindcast simulations cover a limited time range (below ten years) or rely on coarse spatial resolutions while routinely ignoring tide...journal article 2023
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Potapenko, Tatiana (author), Döhler, Jessica S. (author), Francisco, Francisco (author), Lavidas, G. (author), Temiz, Irina (author)Decarbonization of ports is a major goal to reduce their global carbon footprint. The port of Hvide Sande is located on the coast of the North Sea in Denmark and it has the potential to utilize various renewable energy sources. Wind and solar thermal parks are already installed there. Wave energy is an alternative to solar and wind energies and...journal article 2023
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Raghavan, V. (author), Simonetti, Irene (author), Lavidas, G. (author), Metrikine, A. (author), Cappietti, Lorenzo (author)Utilization of Boundary Element Method (BEM) based on linear potential flow for modelling Oscillating Water Column (OWC) devices has gained popularity in the last two decades. The commercial BEM solver WAMIT has been used widely for modelling OWCs and validated using experimental modelling (Delauré et. al. 2003, Bingham et. al. 2015, Faÿ 2020)....conference paper 2023
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Alday Gonzalez, M.F. (author), Raghavan, V. (author), Lavidas, G. (author)To date there is a wide range of wave reanalysis and hindcasts available to the scientific and engineering community which are commonly used for different applications, including downscaling or the estimation of the wave energy resource (Morim et al., 2022). These long datasets have been created using different combinations of forcing fields,...conference paper 2023
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Corrales-Gonzalez, Manuel (author), Lavidas, G. (author), Besio, Giovanni (author)A series of short and mid-term guidelines have been established due to the pursuit to offer clean energy and reduce the environmental impact in the Mediterranean and European environment. Currently, the scientific community and the industrial sector promote to find new technologies and means to achieve these regulations. Efforts to provide...conference paper 2023
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Lavidas, G. (author), De Leo, Francesco (author), Besio, Giovanni (author)The option to have an WEC integrated breakwater at the port of Genoa ensures that the port will protect the area from harsh incoming waves, but also contribute towards the port decarbonization. However, for the solution to be viable, a first layer analysis must estimate its profitability. This works uses a long-term high fidelity wave numerical...conference paper 2023
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Christakos, Konstantinos (author), Lavidas, G. (author), Gao, Zhen (author), Björkqvist, Jan-Victor (author)It was recently shown that the Arctic has been warming much faster than the rest of the globe during the last decades. This warming has reduced the ice extent significantly, which will strongly impact the wave climate in the Arctic regions, thus affecting the design of marine structures, operations, and energy resources. This study focuses on...journal article 2023
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Tan, J. (author), Polinder, H. (author), Jarquin Laguna, A. (author), Miedema, S.A. (author)An adjustable draft point absorber was recently proposed as a novel approach to improve power absorption with constrained power take-off (PTO) capacities. The key feature of the novel wave energy converter (WEC) concept is to adjust the buoy draft by regulating the ballast water inside the buoy, which aims to enable variation of the natural...journal article 2023
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Tan, J. (author), Tao, W. (author), Jarquin Laguna, A. (author), Polinder, H. (author), Xing, Yihan (author), Miedema, S.A. (author)Wave-to-Wire models play an important role in the development of wave energy converters. They could provide insight into the complete operating process of wave energy converters, from the power absorption stage to the power conversion stage. In order to cover a set of relevant nonlinear effects, wave-to-wire models are predominately...journal article 2023
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Corrales-Gonzalez, Manuel (author), Lavidas, G. (author), Besio, Giovanni (author)Clean energies are being incorporated into the energy mix in numerous countries. Through a spatial survey of maritime trade, restricted military maritime areas, marine planning, and the presence of fauna and flora along the Ligurian Sea, locations for possible investments in wave energy harvesting were identified in the Northern Thyrrenian Sea,...journal article 2023
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Ren, Chao (author), Tan, J. (author), Xing, Yihan (author)Wave energy is considered one of the most potential renewable energy. In the last two decades, many wave energy converters (WECs) have been designed to harvest energy from the ocean. Different power take-off systems are developed to maximize the power generation of WECs. However, the estimation of the power matrix of the WECs and annual power...journal article 2023
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Saeidtehrani, S. (author), Lavidas, G. (author), Metrikine, A. (author)The process of finding values of extreme waves and their impacts on wave energy converter (WEC) responses, depends on both wave resources and WEC dynamic characteristics. A wide range of waves can influence the reliability of operation and survivability of a WEC. In this paper, a methodology is described to find specific values of wave heights...conference paper 2022
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Tan, J. (author), Wang, X. (author), Polinder, H. (author), Jarquin Laguna, A. (author), Miedema, S.A. (author)A crucial part of wave energy converters (WECs) is the power take-off (PTO) mechanism, and PTO sizing has been shown to have a considerable impact on the levelized cost of energy (LCOE). However, as a dominating type of PTO system in WECs, previous research pertinent to PTO sizing did not take modeling and optimization of the linear permanent...journal article 2022
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Alday Gonzalez, M.F. (author), Baki, B. (author), Basu, S. (author), Lavidas, G. (author)This Deliverable, 6.2 Renewable Coarse Resource Assessment for the European Region, aims to offer a preliminary overview of the available wind, wave and solar resources across the European Continent. The coarse assessment aims to analyse and assess the current levels of these renewable resources, analysing and discussing the expected variations...report 2022
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Alday Gonzalez, M.F. (author), Baki, B. (author), Basu, S. (author), Lavidas, G. (author)This Deliverable, 6.1 Renewable Correlation of offshore resources, aims to investigate the potential for correlation between parameters of different renewable energies.<br/>The analysis is based on a first layer on coarse data, and will allow us to identify which resources have more “connectivity”. The resource assessment, even at coarse level,...report 2022
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David, Daniel R. (author), Kurniawan, Adi (author), Wolgamot, Hugh (author), Hansen, Jeff E. (author), Rijnsdorp, D.P. (author), Lowe, Ryan (author)To be commercially viable, wave energy converters (WECs) will need to be deployed in arrays or “wave farms” to generate significant amounts of energy and to have the costs of these farms minimised. However, when designing a wave farm, there are a number of trade-offs to be made between competing objectives; for example, between the power...journal article 2022
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Tan, J. (author), Polinder, H. (author), Jarquin Laguna, A. (author), Miedema, S.A. (author)The Power Take-Off (PTO) rating of Wave Energy Converters (WECs) is generally much higher than the average extracted power. Scientific literature has indicated that downsizing the PTO capacity to a suitable level is beneficial for improving the techno-economic competitiveness. In this paper, a novel design, namely the adjustable draft system,...journal article 2022
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Tan, J. (author), Polinder, H. (author), Jarquin Laguna, A. (author), Miedema, S.A. (author)The power take-off (PTO) system is a main component in wave energy converters (WECs), and it accounts for a notable proportion in the total cost. Sizing the PTO capacity has been proven to be significant to the cost-effectiveness of WECs. In the numerical modeling, the PTO size is normally represented by a force constraint. Therefore, to...journal article 2022