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Davide Lanzoni, Filippo Bracco, Federica Cheli, Bianca Maria Colosimo, Davide Moscatelli, Antonella Baldi, Raffaella Rebucci and Carlotta Giromini
The constant growth of the population has pushed researchers to find novel protein sources. A possible solution to this problem has been found in cellular agriculture, specifically in the production of cultured meat. In the following review, the key step...
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Marcello Rava, Panagiotis Dafnakis, Vittorio Martini, Giuseppe Giorgi, Vincenzo Orlando, Giuliana Mattiazzo, Giovanni Bracco and Andrea Gulisano
This work presents the Water Energy Point Absorber (WEPA), which is a heaving single-buoy point absorber optimized for a specific site off the west coast of Sardinia Island. The aim of the study is to present the optimization process undertaken to identi...
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Giuseppe Giorgi, Josh Davidson, Giuseppe Habib, Giovanni Bracco, Giuliana Mattiazzo and Tamás Kalmár-Nagy
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 development and derivation of the models, simplifying assumptions are ...
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Sergej Antonello Sirigu, Ludovico Foglietta, Giuseppe Giorgi, Mauro Bonfanti, Giulia Cervelli, Giovanni Bracco and Giuliana Mattiazzo
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 industry is still lacking. An essential condition for reaching economic viabilit...
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Marco Fontana, Pietro Casalone, Sergej Antonello Sirigu, Giuseppe Giorgi, Giovanni Bracco and Giuliana Mattiazzo
During the optimization phase of a wave energy converter (WEC), it is essential to be able to rely on a model that is both fast and accurate. In this regard, Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) with Reynolds Averaged Navier?Stokes (RANS) approach is not su...
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Mauro Bonfanti, Andrew Hillis, Sergej Antonello Sirigu, Panagiotis Dafnakis, Giovanni Bracco, Giuliana Mattiazzo and Andrew Plummer
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 the produced power without compromising its reliability and durability. Mos...
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Antonello Sergej Sirigu, Federico Gallizio, Giuseppe Giorgi, Mauro Bonfanti, Giovanni Bracco and Giuliana Mattiazzo
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 able to reach maturity and, eventually, industrial feasibility and competitiveness....
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Giuseppe Giorgi, Rui P. F. Gomes, Giovanni Bracco and Giuliana Mattiazzo
Although it is widely accepted that accurate modeling of wave energy converters is essential for effective and reliable design, it is often challenging to define an accurate model which is also fast enough to investigate the design space or to perform ex...
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Sergej Antonello Sirigu, Mauro Bonfanti, Ermina Begovic, Carlo Bertorello, Panagiotis Dafnakis, Giuseppe Giorgi, Giovanni Bracco and Giuliana Mattiazzo
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 these systems is required to design a mooring configuration that ensures stat...
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Beatrice Fenu, Valentino Attanasio, Pietro Casalone, Riccardo Novo, Giulia Cervelli, Mauro Bonfanti, Sergej Antonello Sirigu, Giovanni Bracco and Giuliana Mattiazzo
The energy innovation scenario sees hybrid wind-wave platforms as a promising technology for reducing the variability of the power output and for the minimization of the cost of offshore marine renewable installations. This article presents a model that ...
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