From High-Fidelity Models towards Engineering Tools for the Design of Offshore Renewable Energy Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

Despite the significant increase of the cumulative offshore energy production (including offshore wind, tidal and wave energy, among others) in the last decade, the design of offshore renewable energy technologies is still affected by a high level of uncertainty. Therefore, both scientific and technical community are dedicating an outstanding effort to the creation of numerical models and software that can boost the development of offshore renewable energy technologies. These models allow for a high-fidelity prediction of the marine energy resource, the behaviour of the devices and their economic and environmental impacts, while, on the other hand, guarantee high levels of usability to technology developers and stakeholders on the process of reliable design.

The present Special Issue of the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering will be indeed dedicated to high-fidelity numerical models and engineering tools as a support of the development of offshore renewable energy technologies (wind, tidal and wave), so we encourage the submission of high-quality papers in the following areas:

• Resource assessment models towards the design of offshore technologies,
• Hydrodynamic and aerodynamic analysis, including array effects,
• Subsystem design tools ( e.g. power take off, moorings & foundations, and electrical dispatch system),
• Energy maximising or lifetime extending control,
• Structural integrity and survivability,
• Holistic resource-to-wire models,
• Operation planning and logistics models,
• Numerical tools for the estimation of techno-economic and environmental impacts
• System Engineering approaches and tools supporting innovation of concepts, and
• Frameworks for the assessment of the performance and readiness levels of the different technologies.

This Special Issue is supported by the Joint Research Laboratory on Offshore Renewable Energy (JRL-ORE). For more information visit

http://jrl-ore.com/

Dr. Vincenzo Nava
Dr. Markel Penalba
Guest Editors

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