Simone Michele

TL;DR: In this paper, a mathematical model is developed to analyze the hydrodynamics of a novel oscillating water column (OWC) in a hybrid wind-wave energy system, which has a coaxial cylindrical structure in which the internal cylinder represents the mono-pile of an offshore wind turbine while the external cylinder has a skirt whose scope is to guide the wave energy flux inside the chamber.

TL;DR: In this paper, a wave energy converter made of an array of Q neighbouring floating flap gates with finite thickness in front of a straight vertical wall in constant depth is considered, and the authors show that large values of the exciting torque on the gates can be obtained by tuning the wall distance with the resonance of the natural modes of the array; this yields large power extraction for a wide range of frequencies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered a flap-gate farm with a series of P arrays, each made by Q neighboring flap gates, in an infinitely long channel and determined their eigenfrequencies and modal forms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of gate surface curvature on the nonlinear behaviour of an array of gates in a semi-infinite channel is analyzed. But the effects of surface curvatures are not always beneficial as previously thought.

TL;DR: A second-order nonlinear theory for an array of curved flap-type wave energy converters (WECs) in open sea, excited by oblique incident waves is presented in this paper.