The Marine Energy (ME) team’s main research areas are the development, design and optimization of technologies to harness the marine renewable energy resources as well as the coastal and maritime structures to cope with the marine environment actions, using either numerical (BIEM, RANS, SPH) or physical modelling in wave basins.
The ME group is strongly committed to the development of cross-cutting, sustainable and low-carbon advanced technologies or solutions to harness and withstand marine blue energies, mitigating climate change effects in the long term. Research activities focus on: development and testing of technologies, hydrodynamic modelling, dynamics of floating structures, moorings, wave energy converters, offshore wind foundations, resource characterization, risk assessment, reliability analysis, breakwater and harbour design, and wave-structure interaction, among others.
