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Nearshore Wind and Wave Energy Potential

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 November 2021) | Viewed by 2470

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Florin Onea

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, 800008 Galati, Romania
Interests: marine renewable energies
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of "The Nearshore Wind and Wave Energy Potential". Coastal areas represent suitable environments for the development of marine energy farms, with the most promising concepts being associated with wind and wave energy extraction. Since there is a strong connection between the two resources, and the offshore wind sector is a mature market, especially in Europe, co-locating wave farms together with existing wind projects represent a viable approach. This is because in such a way, it is possible to reduce the initial costs associated with a wave project and to increase the amount of electricity output. In addition, for the wind farms located close to the shoreline, such an approach can also provide, in certain cases, effective coastal protection by reducing the power of the waves propagating towards the shores. This Special Issue will cover the following research directions: a) assessment of the wind and wave resources from the nearshore area; b) performance evaluation of various converters located in this environment; c) the identification of future opportunities in the marine renewable market, such as coastal protection, joint wind-wave projects, or airborne wind systems.

Dr. Florin Onea
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Nearshore
  • Wind-wave projects
  • Marine renewable
  • Coastal protection
  • Emerging concepts

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Modeling Sea Ice Effects for Wave Energy Resource Assessments
by Ruth Branch, Gabriel García-Medina, Zhaoqing Yang, Taiping Wang, Fadia Ticona Rollano and Lucia Hosekova
Energies 2021, 14(12), 3482; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14123482 - 11 Jun 2021
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Abstract
Wave-generated power has potential as a valuable coastal resource, but the wave climate needs to be mapped for feasibility before wave energy converters are installed. Numerical models are used for wave resource assessments to quantify the amount of available power and its seasonality. [...] Read more.
Wave-generated power has potential as a valuable coastal resource, but the wave climate needs to be mapped for feasibility before wave energy converters are installed. Numerical models are used for wave resource assessments to quantify the amount of available power and its seasonality. Alaska is the U.S. state with the longest coastline and has extensive wave resources, but it is affected by seasonal sea ice that dampens the wave energy and the full extent of this dampening is unknown. To accurately characterize the wave resource in regions that experience seasonal sea ice, coastal wave models must account for these effects. The aim of this study is to determine how the dampening effects of sea ice change wave energy resource assessments in the nearshore. Here, we show that by combining high-resolution sea ice imagery with a sea ice/wave dampening parameterization in an unstructured grid, the Simulating Waves Nearshore (SWAN) model improves wave height predictions and demonstrates the extent to which wave power decreases when sea ice is present. The sea ice parametrization decreases the bias and root mean square errors of wave height comparisons with two wave buoys and predicts a decrease in the wave power of up to 100 kW/m in areas around Prince William Sound, Alaska. The magnitude of the improvement of the model/buoy comparison depends on the coefficients used to parameterize the wave–ice interaction. Full article
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