Federica Buriani

University of Plymouth | UoP · COAST (Coastal, Ocean And Sediment Transport) laboratory

An understanding of the hydroelastic response of a flexible circular plate to water waves is relevant to many problems in ocean engineering ranging from offshore wave energy converters and solar wind devices to very large floating structures such as floating airports and ice sheets. This paper describes results from physical model tests undertaken...

We present a novel mathematical model to investigate the extraction of wave power by flexible elastic floaters. The model is based on the method of dry modes, coupled with a matched eigenfunction expansion. Our model results compare satisfactorily with preliminary data obtained from a demonstrator device, developed at the University of Groningen. W...

We present a novel mathematical model to investigate the extraction of wave power by flexible floaters. The model is based on the method of dry modes, coupled with a matched eigenfunction expansion. Our model results compare satisfactorily with preliminary data obtained from a demonstrator device, developed at the University of Groningen. We show t...

KEY POINTS • Wave breaking generates large scale Coherent vortical Structures (CS). • CS strongly control sediment motion and diffusion of tracers, thus deserving a thorough study. • CS induced by a regular plunging wave are analyzed. • Preliminary results provide information on CS location and turbulent length scales.

KEY POINTS • Wave breaking generates large scale Coherent vortical Structures (CS). • CS strongly control sediment motion and diffusion of tracers, thus deserving a thorough study. • CS induced by a regular plunging wave are analyzed. • Preliminary results provide information on CS location and turbulent length scales.

The characteristics of vorticity induced just prior and at the splash-down of a plunging breaker on a 1:10 planar slope have been studied using wave flume experiments and numerical simulations. Laboratory experiments involved detailed measurements in the outer surf zone of both fluid velocities below trough level, achieved by a fibre-optic laser-Do...

Piezoelectric wave energy converters (WECs) are an innovative concept of electromechanical ocean energy converters for low-power applications. These include sensors, floating buoy structures and hybrid energy systems in which the piezoelectric converters are coupled with offshore wind turbines. In this paper, we analyse the interaction of linear wa...

Reservoir type wave energy converters (WECs) consist of a wave ramp which induces wave overflow, a storage reservoir with a water level above Mean Water Level, and a hydropower converter to produce electric energy from the potential energy of the water. Reservoir WECs have interesting advantages: (a) only the mass concrete ramps are exposed to wave...