LIRA LOARCA , A.

In this work, we investigate the interaction between the combination of wind-driven and regular waves and a chamber defined by a rigid wall and a thin vertical semi-submerged barrier. A series of laboratory experiments were performed with different values of incident wave height, wave period, and wind speed. The analysis focuses on the effect...

An analytical model of the interaction of oblique incident regular waves with a maritime structure is developed and extended to irregular waves. The structure is composed of a semi-submergible vertical impermeable plate enclosing a chamber. Linear wave theory is considered, taking into account the head loss due to the constriction of the flow....

This work presents a new methodology for the long-term simulation and uncertainty analysis of the performance of different alternatives of wave energy converter arrays. With it, we can analyze complete operational lifetime time-series of energy production for any type of wave energy converter. The methodology is based on the application of...

The assessment of the uncertainty about the evolution of complex processes usually requires different realizations consisting of multivariate temporal signals of environmental data. However, it is common to have only one observational set. MarineTools.temporal is an open-source Python package for the non-stationary parametric statistical...

Wind–waves play a relevant role in the downward flux of mass, momentum and heat, and in their balances. Thus, they are quite significant in small- and large-scale processes like global warming, especially in continental shelf. There is still no consensus on the effectiveness of different mechanisms in enhancing, e.g., the carbon dioxide (CO2)...

Beaches around the world frequently exhibit a wide variety of shoreline morphological features of different dimensions, and increasing attention has been focused on shoreline undulations in recent years. Shoreline undulations (SUs) are medium to large spatial-scale features with longshore dimensions ranging from hundreds to thousands of meters...