Eugen Rusu

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the performance provided by various technologies for wave energy conversion in the Portuguese continental coastal environment, based on the results from three years of simulations with a wave prediction system based on numerical models for both winters and whole years, and showed that a good agreement between the characteristics of the power matrices of the wave energy converters operating in a certain place and the diagrams for the bivariate distributions of the sea states occurrences corresponding to the considered location represents a key issue in selecting the most appropriate technology for Wave Energy conversion.

TL;DR: In this article, the wave energy spatial distribution in the Portuguese nearshore is analyzed based on buoy measurements covering the 10-year period 1994-2003, and a wave prediction system based on two state-of-the-art spectral models, WAM and SWAN, was used to evaluate the wave conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, an evaluation of the efficiency of twelve state-of-the-art wave energy converters in the Atlantic Ocean, in the vicinity of the most important European islands and archipelagos (Iceland, Archipelago of Azores, Madeira archipelago and Canary Islands), was performed by considering a 10-year interval (2004-2013) of wave data provided by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the wave power resources in various offshore and nearshore areas were assessed and compared to determine which is better suited for potential commercial exploitation, in order to estimate the electric power production expected in a certain location, the bivariate distributions of the occurrences corresponding to the sea states, defined by the significant wave height and the energy period, were constructed in each coastal area.