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Charise Cutajar, Tonio Sant, Robert N. Farrugia and Daniel Buhagiar
Floating breakwaters have recently been generating increasing interest as a vital means to provide shelter and protect the ever-increasing number of structures deployed at sea. Notwithstanding the novel ideas being put forward, to date, floating breakwat...
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Wayne Formosa, Tonio Sant, Claire De Marco Muscat-Fenech and Massimo Figari
Following the International Maritime Organization?s goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the interest in the application of wind-assisted ship propulsion (WASP) in maritime transportation is on the rise. Although a variety of WASP systems exist, the ...
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Diane Scicluna, Claire De Marco Muscat-Fenech, Tonio Sant, Giuliano Vernengo and Tahsin Tezdogan
There exist vast areas of offshore wind resources with water depths greater than 100 m that require floating structures. This paper provides a detailed analysis on the hydrostatic stability characteristics of a novel floating wind turbine concept. The pr...
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Mitchell G. Borg, Claire DeMarco Muscat-Fenech, Tahsin Tezdogan, Tonio Sant, Simon Mizzi and Yigit Kemal Demirel
Conventional liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo vessels are imposed with tank-fill limitations as precautions to prevent structural damage and stability-loss due to high-impact sloshing, enforcing cargo volume-fills to be lower than 10% or higher than 70%...
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Soonseok Song, Yigit Kemal Demirel, Claire De Marco Muscat-Fenech, Tonio Sant, Diego Villa, Tahsin Tezdogan and Atilla Incecik
Research into the effects of hull roughness on ship resistance and propulsion is well established, however, the effect of heterogeneous hull roughness is not yet fully understood. In this study, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations were conduct...
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