| DATE | PRESENTER | SEMINAR TITLE |
| 10/12/2015 | Iain Keaney
Markel Peñalba Retes |
Evanescent Wave Reduction Using a Segmented Wavemaker in a Two Dimensional Wave Tank
The WEC of the Week: Ocean Grazer |
| 03/12/2015 | Francesco Paparella
Victor Ramos |
Optimal Control of a three-body hinge-barge wave energy device using pseudo-spectral methods
The TEC of the Week: The Evopod Turbine |
| 26/11/2015 | Paula Garcia Rosa
Romain Genest |
On the Sensitivity of Optimal Wave Energy Device Geometry to the Energy Maximising Control System
The WEC of the Week: Waveline Magnet |
| 19/11/2015 | Tom Kelly
Francesco Paparella |
Proposed Experimental Method to Measure the Hydrodynamic Coefficients of an Oscillating Water Column
The WEC of the Week: Drakoo |
| 12/11/2015 | Alexis Merigaud
Paula Garcia Rosa |
Short-term wave power forecasting: a few aspects to consider
The WEC of the Week: The WaveRoller |
| 05/11/2015 | Victor Ramos
Simone Giorgi |
Assessment of the wave and tidal stream energy resources through wide-scale numerical modelling
The WEC of the Week: COSTAS WAVE |
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29/10/2015
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Darragh Clabby: Resolute Marine
Tom Kelly |
Extreme Loads and Pressures Applied to SurgeWEC: a Small Oscillating Wave Surge Converter
The WEC of the Week: Atmocean |
| 22/10/2015 | Romain Genest
Markel Peñalba Retes |
On receding horizon pseudo-spectral control for wave energy devices
The WEC of the Week: The WEGA |
| 15/10/2015 | Francesco Paparella
Alexis Merigaud |
Multi-body modelling of wave energy converters using pseudo-spectral methods with application to a three-body hinge-barge device
The WEC of the Week: Offshore Energy System from Float Incorporated |
| 08/10/2015 | Yanji Wei : UCD
Giuseppe Giorgi |
A cost-effective method for modelling wave-OWSC interaction
The WEC of the Week: W2Power, an wind-wave hybrid solution |
| 01/10/2015 | Markel Peñalba Retes
Josh Davidson |
Ecole Centrale de Nantes PhD course presentation
The WEC of the Week: The Free Floating Clam |
| 24/09/2015 | Ciaran Quin : MU Library | Maynooth University library services for engineering |
| 17/09/2015 | John Ringwood
Josh Davidson Tom Kelly Simone Giorgi Markel Peñalba Retes Francesco Paparella Alexis Merigaud |
Recap of the EWTEC’15 Conference – Nantes, France
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| 30/07/2015 | Wave tank tour
Tom Kelly Pal Schmitt : QUB |
Demonstration of the DkIT Narrow Tank, in Dundalk, 10:30am-12:00pm Demonstration of QUB’s Shallow Water Wave Tank, in Portaferry, 3:00pm-4:30pm |
| SUMMER BREAK | ||
| 18/06/2015 | John Ringwood
Markel Peñalba Retes |
Recap of the OMAE’15 Conference – St Johns, Canada
The WEC of the Week: CorPower |
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11/06/2015
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Workshop | Introduction to Python – getting started, tips and tricks |
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04/06/2015
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Josh Davidson
Victor Ramos |
Recap of the 11th INORE Symposium – Naples, Italy
The TEC of the Week: The Magallanes Project |
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28/05/2015
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Paula Garcia Rosa
Andrej Roessling |
Hydrodynamic modelling competition – overview and approaches
The WEC of the Week: Sparbouy [ PDF ] |
| 21/05/2015 | Workshop | Writing for technical publications – technical reports, conference papers and journal papers |
| 14/05/2015 | Giuseppe Giorgi
Francesco Paparella |
Modification of the OpenFOAM source code and implementation of latching control
The WEC of the Week: Jospa |
| 07/05/2015 | Tom Kelly
Josh Davidson |
Thermodynamics of Oscillating Water Columns
The WEC of the Week: Waveplane |
| 30/04/2015 | Alexis Merigaud
Sébastien Dot |
Nonlinear Froude-Krylov force modelling for two heaving wave energy absorbers
The TEC of the Week: OpenHydro |
| 23/04/2015 | Markel Peñalba Retes
Alexis Merigaud |
Optimisation of a heaving WEC farm layout
The TEC of the Week: Alstom’s Oceade |
| 16/04/2015 | Francesco Paparella
Simone Giorgi |
On the solution of multibody WEC motions using pseudospectral methods
The WEC of the Week: Crestwing |
| SPRING BREAK | ||
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26/03/2015
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Josh Davidson
Paula Garcia Rosa |
Implementation of an OpenFOAM Numerical Wave Tank for Wave Energy Experiments
The WEC of the Week: Offshore WEC plant at Ilha Rasa, Brazil |
| 19/03/2015 | Simone Giorgi
Romain Genest |
Nonlinear Identification of Excitation Force Kernels Using Numerical Wave Tank Experiments
The WEC of the Week: SPA OWC (Submerged Point Absorber using Oscillating Water Column) |
| 12/03/2015 | John Ringwood
Tom Kelly |
Optimising numerical wave tank tests for the parametric identification of wave energy device models
The WEC of the Week: The Kaimei |
| 05/03/2015 | Alexis Merigaud
Giuseppe Giorgi |
Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming for Natural Gas and Power Markets
The TEC of the Week: MINESTO’s Deep Green Tidal Energy Converter |
| 26/02/2015 | Markel Peñalba Retes
Francesco Paparella |
Analysis and characterisation of wave interaction among devices in a WEC array
The WEC of the Week: Wave Treader by Green Ocean Energy |
| 19/02/2015 | Romain Genest
Andrej Roessling |
Development and experimental validation of control strategies for WECs
The WEC of the Week: NEMOS |
| 12/02/2015 | Giuseppe Giorgi
Victor Ramos |
Analytical nonlinear model development and hydrodynamics optimisation of ISWEC
The TEC of the Week: Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Plant |
| 05/02/2015 | Tom Kelly
Josh Davidson |
Time domain simulations of OWCs based on reconstructed frequency domain added mass
The WEC of the Week: The near shore OWC plant at Vizhinjam, India |