✦ At a glance
Pre-deployment de-risking of a bottom-fixed hybrid wind and wave energy concept (six Oscillating Water Columns). Diffraction-radiation in WAMIT and non-linear time-domain simulation in Ship@Sea.
07 · References
Further reading.
- Ribeiro e Silva, S. et al. (2011). Numerical modelling and assessment of the UGEN floating wave energy converter. International Journal of Marine Engineering, Vol. 153.
- Ribeiro e Silva, S. et al. (2016). Hydrodynamic optimization of the UGEN: Wave energy converter. International Journal of Marine Energy, Vol. 15.
- Ribeiro e Silva, S. et al. (2017). Experimental study on reduction of dynamic instability in oscillating water column spar buoy. 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference.
- Ribeiro e Silva, S. et al. (2021). Model testing of floating wave energy converter with internal U-shaped oscillating water column. Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 240.
- Lourenço, D., Ribeiro e Silva, S., Pinto, L. (2025). Wave Energy Conversion Efficiency of the UGEN along the Western Portuguese Coast. EWTEC 2025, Funchal.
✦ A note on confidentiality
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