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Felice Arena
Researcher at Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria
Publications - 177
Citations - 2148
Felice Arena is an academic researcher from Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wind wave & Nonlinear system. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 168 publications receiving 1692 citations. Previous affiliations of Felice Arena include Technical University of Lisbon & Mediterranean University.
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On Design and Building of a U-OWC Wave Energy Converter in the Mediterranean Sea: A Case Study
TL;DR: In 2012, a full scale U-OWC (REWEC3) breakwater has been designed in Italy, for the harbour of Civitavecchia (the port of Rome -Port Authority of Civittavecchio).
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Weakly nonlinear statistics of high random waves
Francesco Fedele,Felice Arena +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend the theory of quasideterminism of Boccotti to the second-order, deriving new wave crest and wave trough distributions that take into account nonlinear effects and are valid for finite bandwidth of the spectrum in deep water.
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Caisson breakwaters embodying an OWC with a small opening—Part II: A small-scale field experiment
TL;DR: In this paper, an experiment off the eastern coast of the Straits of Messina provides a confirmation of the theory: some huge amplifications of swells are common at a breakwater converter, and as a consequence the energy absorption gets very large.
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Wave climate analysis for the design of wave energy harvesters in the Mediterranean Sea
Felice Arena,Valentina Laface,Giovanni Malara,Alessandra Romolo,Antonino Viviano,Vincenzo Fiamma,Gianmaria Sannino,Adriana Carillo +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided a synthetic tool for determining expeditiously the wave climate conditions in several areas of the Mediterranean Sea, and provided the theoretical aspects involved in the estimation of wave energy statistics and the calculation of relevant return values.
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Analytical modelling of an U-Oscillating Water Column and performance in random waves
Giovanni Malara,Felice Arena +1 more
TL;DR: A consistent representation of the wave field interacting with the U-OWC is proposed in the context of a linearized theory of water waves and, then, an analytical description of the U -OWC dynamics overcomes the drawbacks of the analytical models proposed at the present time in the open literature.