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Giuseppe Giorgi, Josh Davidson, Giuseppe Habib, Giovanni Bracco, Giuliana Mattiazzo and Tamás Kalmár-Nagy
Mathematical models are essential for the design and control of offshore systems, to simulate the fluid?structure interactions and predict the motions and the structural loads. In the development and derivation of the models, simplifying assumptions are ...
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Marco Fontana, Giuseppe Giorgi, Massimiliano Accardi, Ermanno Giorcelli, Stefano Brizzolara and Sergej Antonello Sirigu
In this investigation, a comprehensive study was conducted on a U-shaped sloshing tank, based on reversing the classical treatment of such devices as motion stabilizers and using them instead to improve the performance of wave energy converters. The mode...
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Mauro Bonfanti and Giuseppe Giorgi
Wave energy converter (WEC) optimization often underlines incremental and iterative approaches that result in suboptimal solutions, since all the elements that concur with a techno-economical evaluation are optimized separately due to computation constra...
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Giuseppe Giorgi and Sergej Antonello Sirigu
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Sergej Antonello Sirigu, Ludovico Foglietta, Giuseppe Giorgi, Mauro Bonfanti, Giulia Cervelli, Giovanni Bracco and Giuliana Mattiazzo
Although sea and ocean waves have been widely acknowledged to have the potential of providing sustainable and renewable energy, the emergence of a self-sufficient and mature industry is still lacking. An essential condition for reaching economic viabilit...
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Pietro Casalone, Oronzo Dell?Edera, Beatrice Fenu, Giuseppe Giorgi, Sergej Antonello Sirigu and Giuliana Mattiazzo
The hydrodynamic investigation of a hull?s performance is a key aspect when designing a new prototype, especially when it comes to a competitive/racing environment. This paper purports to perform a fully nonlinear unsteady Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes...
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Marco Fontana, Pietro Casalone, Sergej Antonello Sirigu, Giuseppe Giorgi, Giovanni Bracco and Giuliana Mattiazzo
During the optimization phase of a wave energy converter (WEC), it is essential to be able to rely on a model that is both fast and accurate. In this regard, Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) with Reynolds Averaged Navier?Stokes (RANS) approach is not su...
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Antonello Sergej Sirigu, Federico Gallizio, Giuseppe Giorgi, Mauro Bonfanti, Giovanni Bracco and Giuliana Mattiazzo
The wave energy sector is experiencing lively years of conceptual innovation and technological advances. Among the great variety of candidates, only a few are going to be able to reach maturity and, eventually, industrial feasibility and competitiveness....
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Giuseppe Giorgi, Rui P. F. Gomes, Giovanni Bracco and Giuliana Mattiazzo
Although it is widely accepted that accurate modeling of wave energy converters is essential for effective and reliable design, it is often challenging to define an accurate model which is also fast enough to investigate the design space or to perform ex...
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Filippo Giorcelli, Sergej Antonello Sirigu, Giuseppe Giorgi, Nicolás Faedo, Mauro Bonfanti, Jacopo Ramello, Ermanno Giorcelli and Giuliana Mattiazzo
Among the challenges generated by the global climate crisis, a significant concern is the constant increase in energy demand. This leads to the need to ensure that any novel energy systems are not only renewable but also reliable in their performance. A ...
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Marcello Rava, Panagiotis Dafnakis, Vittorio Martini, Giuseppe Giorgi, Vincenzo Orlando, Giuliana Mattiazzo, Giovanni Bracco and Andrea Gulisano
This work presents the Water Energy Point Absorber (WEPA), which is a heaving single-buoy point absorber optimized for a specific site off the west coast of Sardinia Island. The aim of the study is to present the optimization process undertaken to identi...
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Bruno Paduano, Giuseppe Giorgi, Rui P. F. Gomes, Edoardo Pasta, João C. C. Henriques, Luís M. C. Gato and Giuliana Mattiazzo
The mooring system of floating wave energy converters (WECs) has a crucial impact on power generation efficiency, cost of delivered energy, proper operation, reliability and survivability. An effective design, addressing such competing objectives, requir...
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Sergej Antonello Sirigu, Mauro Bonfanti, Ermina Begovic, Carlo Bertorello, Panagiotis Dafnakis, Giuseppe Giorgi, Giovanni Bracco and Giuliana Mattiazzo
A proper design of the mooring systems for Wave Energy Converters (WECs) requires an accurate investigation of both operating and extreme wave conditions. A careful analysis of these systems is required to design a mooring configuration that ensures stat...
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Fabian Wendt, Kim Nielsen, Yi-Hsiang Yu, Harry Bingham, Claes Eskilsson, Morten Kramer, Aurélien Babarit, Tim Bunnik, Ronan Costello, Sarah Crowley, Benjamin Gendron, Giuseppe Giorgi, Simone Giorgi, Samuel Girardin, Deborah Greaves, Pilar Heras, Johan Hoffman, Ha?zul Islam, Ken-Robert Jakobsen, Carl-Erik Janson, Johan Jansson, Hyun Yul Kim, Jeong-Seok Kim, Kyong-Hwan Kim, Adi Kurniawan, Massimiliano Leoni, Thomas Mathai, Bo-Woo Nam, Sewan Park, Krishnakumar Rajagopalan, Edward Ransley, Robert Read, John V. Ringwood, José Miguel Rodrigues, Benjamin Rosenthal, André Roy, Kelley Ruehl, Paul Scho?eld, Wanan Sheng, Abolfazl Shiri, Sarah Thomas, Imanol Touzon and Imai Yasutakaadd Show full author list remove Hide full author list
The International Energy Agency Technology Collaboration Programme for Ocean Energy Systems (OES) initiated the OES Wave Energy Conversion Modelling Task, which focused on the verification and validation of numerical models for simulating wave energy con...
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