A built-in wave energy converter (BI-WEC) is a type of WEC that is fully encapsulated within
a floating body that is easy to integrate and promotes reliability. Significant advantages in …

Ocean wave energy has a great potential in mitigating energy and sustainability crises of the
21st century. The lack of mature and cost-competitive wave energy converter (WEC) …

Although sea and ocean waves have been widely acknowledged to have the potential of
providing sustainable and renewable energy, the emergence of a self-sufficient and mature …

A proper design of the mooring systems for Wave Energy Converters (WECs) requires an
accurate investigation of both operating and extreme wave conditions. A careful analysis of …

Harvesting energy from waves is gaining popularity in the last decades, due to growing
technological maturity and reduction of manufacturing costs of Wave Energy Converter …

Wave energy converter (WEC) optimization often underlines incremental and iterative
approaches that result in suboptimal solutions, since all the elements that concur with a …

Mathematical models are essential for the design and control of offshore systems, to
simulate the fluid–structure interactions and predict the motions and the structural loads. In …

The wave energy sector is experiencing lively years of conceptual innovation and
technological advances. Among the great variety of candidates, only a few are going to be …

Optimal control strategies represent a widespread solution to increase the extracted energy
of a Wave Energy Converter (WEC). The aim is to bring the WEC into resonance enhancing …

This study analyzes a pendulum-based wave energy converter with multiple degrees of
freedom and a rigid hull encapsulation design that enhances robustness and extends …