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Huashuai Liu, Fan Yang and Hongchuan Wang
Climate change poses higher requirements on ocean engineering design, and reasonable estimation of design wave heights plays a crucial role in coastal protection and offshore engineering. Extreme value analysis is widely used in frequency calculations of...
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Jiahui Song, Hasan Imani, Jinchao Yue and Shaolin Yang
The floating photovoltaic (FPV) array, which consists of tens or hundreds of rows of floating photovoltaic systems, exhibits great economic and environmental benefits. An FPV array arranged in the ocean will be subjected to the combined action of wind, w...
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Myung-Su Yi and Joo-Shin Park
In the mobile jack-up unit, the leg supporting the hull is a very important structure, and it is important to closely examine the changes in accident load, environmental load, and seabed ground during jack-up operation. Generally, jack-up rigs are three-...
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Andréia S. de Barros, Cristiano Fragassa, Maycon da S. Paiva, Luiz A. O. Rocha, Bianca N. Machado, Liércio A. Isoldi, Mateus das N. Gomes and Elizaldo D. dos Santos
Studies regarding renewable energy sources have gained attention over recent years. One example is wave energy converters, which harvest energy from sea waves using different operational principles such as oscillating water columns, oscillating bodies, a...
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Chunjie Wang, Xiaodong Song, Qiang Fu, Lin Cui and Peng Chen
Marine buoys need to operate in high sea areas far from land for a long time. Therefore, how to provide a long-term power supply for the buoy system is critical to be addressed. Photovoltaic (PV) power supply systems are the most commonly used power supp...
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Jingfu Wang, Songtao Zhang, Jiahuan Cheng, Yunfei Li, Yan Shen and Zihao Wu
As an essential transportation equipment for personnel to access offshore wind plants, the safety and stability of the turbine access system (TAS) have gained increasing significance. However, when sea conditions deteriorate, the end of the TAS will expe...
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Martin Moreau, Grégory Germain and Guillaume Maurice
The cost effective design of tidal turbines requires a good estimation of the loading cycles and their extrema that are related to the unsteady fluctuation of the current velocity. Apart from the ambient turbulence, the main source of velocity fluctuatio...
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Charles R. Ortloff
High-speed fluid flows over roughened surfaces occur in many engineering applications; one important application involves high velocity water flows in pipelines with roughened interior walls where the wall roughness affects head loss estimates necessary ...
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Ana-Maria Chirosca, Antonio Medina, Florin Pacuraru, Simone Saettone, Liliana Rusu and Sandita Pacuraru
Reducing the added resistance in waves has become a crucial aspect of today?s ship design. The added resistance in waves is traditionally considered proportional to the square of wave height. However, this assumption is believed to be only partly valid, ...
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Gulizar Ozyurt Tarakcioglu, Dogan Kisacik, Vincent Gruwez and Peter Troch
Wave overtopping is a critical parameter in the design of coastal defense structures. Nowadays, several empirical formulations based on small-scale experiments are available in the literature to predict the mean overtopping discharge at dikes on shallow ...
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