| DATE | PRESENTER | SEMINAR TITLE |
| 08/12/2016 | Marina Garcia Abril
Christian Windt |
Excitation force estimator and forecaster in the array case
The WEC of the week: AquaHarmonics |
| 01/12/2016 | Markel Peñalba Retes
John Ringwood |
Can NEMOH replace WAMIT?
The WEC of the week: The Hailong 1 |
| 24/11/2016 | Ally Price :Wave Power Conundrums
Yerai Pena |
The frequency domain ambiguity: untangling strands from several scientific traditions
The TEC of the week: The ECO-Auger |
| 17/11/2016 | Sebastien Olaya
Francesco Paparella |
Optimal control strategies for WECs – A review
The WEC of the week: The DDR WEC by Columbia Power |
| 10/11/2016 | Giuseppe Giorgi
Markel Peñalba Retes |
Recap of the 3rd Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference: AWTEC2016, Singapore
The WEC of the week: The DUO |
| 03/11/2016 | John Ringwood
Josh Davidson |
Modelling simulation and control of wave energy devices
The WEC of the week: The Flounder |
| 27/10/2016 | John Ringwood
Simone Giorgi |
Recap of the 2nd Renewable Energies Offshore conference: RENEW2016, Lisbon, Portugal
The WEC of the week: PPR by LTC |
| 20/10/2016 | Marina Garcia Abril
Josh Davidson |
Building an excitation force estimator for a cylindrical WEC with heave motion
The WEC of the week: The PS Frog |
| 13/10/2016 | Peter Conlon : Maynooth University Commercialisation Office | Commercialisation Workshop |
| 06/10/2016 | Christian Windt : Technical University Hamburg
Josh Davidson |
Development of numerical methodologies for the investigation of ocean wave energy converters
The WEC of the week: The Frog |
| 29/09/2016 | Josh Davidson
Marina Garcia Abril |
Adaptive vibration energy harvesting: analogies with wave energy conversion
The WEC of the week: The Fisherman WEC |
| 22/09/2016 | John Ringwood and Francesco Paparella
Sebastien Olaya |
Recap of the 11th UKACC Conference on Control, Belfast 2016
The WEC of the week: SEEWEC |
| 15/09/2016 | Alexis Merigaud
Josh Davidson |
Nonlinear WEC modelling in the frequency domain: A not so impossible task
The WEC of the week: Mocean |
| 08/09/2016 | Philipp Thiele
Francesco Paparella |
Parsimonious structures for forecasting autoregressive time series
The WEC of the week: Intentium Offshore WEC |
| 25/08/2016 | Josh Davidson
Alexis Merigaud |
Adaptive control of a wave energy converters
The WEC of the week: GEPS Techno |
| 18/08/2016 | John Ringwood
Simone Giorgi |
Recap of the 2016 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada
The WEC of the week: Floating Power Plant by IVEC |
| 11/08/2016 | Sebastien Olaya
Marina Garcia Abril |
Modelling and control for a self-reacting point absorber based on a linear approach
The WEC of the week: Oceantec |
| 04/08/2016 | Daniel Tabas
Philipp Theile |
Design and analysis of a benchtop wave energy demonstration unit
The WEC of the week: SEWEC |
| 28/07/2016 | Tom Kelly and Romain Genest
Markel Peñalba Retes |
Real-time control of an oscillating water column using a variable orifice
The WEC of the week: SeaWEED |
| SUMMER BREAK | ||
| 16/06/2016 | Giuseppe Giorgi
Daniel Tabas |
Comparison of different nonlinear modelling options for heaving point absorbers
The WEC of the week: M3 Wave |
| 09/06/2016 | Josh Davidson
Romain Genest |
Considering mooring forces in WEC modelling and control
The WEC of the week: The UGEN floating WEC |
| 02/06/2016 | John Ringwood
Alexis Merigaud |
Robustness issues for WEC control systems
The WEC of the week: The CCell WEC by Zyba renewables |
| 26/05/2016 | Alain Ulazia : University of the Basque Country
Josh Davidson |
Wave energy trend in Europe during the last century according to ERA20
The WEC of the week: NREL’s OSWEC with variable geometry |
| 19/05/2016 | Markel Peñalba Retes
Philipp Thiele |
A wave-to-wire model with hydraulic transmission for a heaving point absorber
The WEC of the week: PowerBuoy by O.P.T. |
| 12/05/2016 | Simone Giorgi
Alain Ulazia |
Identification of Wavestar WEC hydrodynamic models from real wave tank experimental data
The WEC of the week: MGR WEC |
| 28/04/2016 | Francesco Paparella
Josh Davidson |
Position estimation using combined inertial sensor system and ultrasound sensors
The WEC of the week: Odyssee |
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21/04/2016
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Romain Genest
Francesco Paparella |
Comparison between model predictive control and pseudospectral method for the control of WECs
The WEC of the week: Pontoon Power Converter |
| 14/04/2016 | Josh Davidson
Simone Giorgi |
Implementing feedback control in a numerical wave tank by coupling OpenFOAM with MATLAB
The WEC of the week: The Power Wing by Eco Wave Power |
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07/04/2016
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Alain Ulazia : University of the Basque Country
Markel Peñalba Retes |
Ocean Energy in the Engineering School of Gipuzkoa-Eibar: Teaching and research
The WEC of the week: Trident Energy |
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31/03/2016
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Alexis Merigaud
Giuseppe Giorgi |
Sea state spectral representation and time-series generation for wave energy applications
The WEC of the week: The H24 by 40South Energy |
| EASTER BREAK | ||
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10/03/2016
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Victor Ramos
Alexis Merigaud |
Exploring the utility and effectiveness of the IEC tidal energy resource assessment and characterisation standard
The WEC of the week: A concept of sloped motion for free-floating WECs |
| 03/03/2016 |
Wout Prins : Ocean Grazer
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The Ocean Grazer WEC |
| 25/02/2016 | Tom Kelly
Romain Genest |
Proposed experimental method to measure the hydrodynamic coefficients of an OWC – Irregular wave update
The WEC of the week: Azura |
| 18/02/2016 | Josh Davidson
Simone Giorgi |
Design and analysis of a small scale WEC for powering marine based sensors
The WEC of the week: Oceanus by Seatricity |
| 11/02/2016 | Josh Davidson
Markel Peñalba Retes |
Investigation of the high frequency tail of ocean wave spectra for low power wave energy harvesting
The WEC of the week: Laminaria |