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The participation of the WavEC in European projects has given us the opportunity to work in collaboration with universities receiving students from different countries that develop their internship or final study work with the supervision of WavEC’s team.

Students
• 2003 (3 months)  – Marc Chiron (France) - Modelisation of a 3D of freedom AWS singled moored tension leg;
• 2004 (3 months) – Pierre. M. Guillouet (France) - Simulation of highly resonant OWC power plants: analysis of numerical problems occurring with AQUADYN;
• 2004 (3 months) – Christell Herry (France) – OWC wave power plants Implementation of a SIMULINK Model;
• 2006 (3 months) – David Ben Haim (France) – Modelisation numerique de la structure du Pelamis;
• 2006 (3 months) – Laurent Lebreton (France) – Étude d’une bouée à colonne déau oscillante;
• 2008 (5 months) – Izan Le Crom (France) – Estudo do impacto da exploração da energia das ondas na agitação maritima junto à costa portuguesa (Study of wave energy exploitation near the Portuguese coast);
• 2008 (5 months) – Thomas Soulard (France) – Wave energy absorption through the relative heave oscillating motion of two bodies;
• 2009 (6 months) – Alessandra Fatuzzo (Spain) Study of the marine renewable energy industry; Case Study: wave energy In Portugal;
• 2009 (3 months) – Aurelien Sabatier (France) –  Mathematical simulation  of the Anaconda wave energy converter;
• 2010 (3 months) – Raul Alexander (Germany) –  Power plant operation and monitoring/ data aquisition/ maintenance/trouble shooting;
• 2010 (4 months) – Arthur Pecher (Denmark)  – Internship: apply the skills and knowledge acquired and participate to the development of Wave Energy;
• 2010 (6 months) – Soraya Hamawi  (The Netherlands) The viability of a small/medium Wave Energy device;
• 2011 (3 months) – Chloée de La Vega  (France) – Validation of numerical codes to analyse the dynamics of wave energy converters;
• 2011 (5 months) – Maria Ruis Plana (Spain) – Preliminary hidrodynamic Studies for  wind turbines floating platforms;
• 2011 (4 months) – Carolina Laroche (France) – OWC Pico Plant data analysis.

Internship

• 2007 (5 months) Nicolai Løvdal (Norway) – International internship in Ocean Energy.

PhD
• 2007/2008 (1 year) – Erik Segergren (Sweden) – Wave Energy Converter (In collaboration with IST)



WAVEC PROJECTS


CA-OE project

• 15/11/2006 to 01/12/2006 Ernst Soons (The Netherlands) – A generic research into computational modeling of Wells rotors in oscillating air & water flows;
• 23/05/2007 to 21/07/2007 – Animesh Panda (India) – Wave Characteristics Estimation: based on Results from sea trials in Pico OWC Wave Energy Plant, Azores;
• 10/09/2007 to 30/09/2007 – Lucia Margheritini (Italy) – OWC PICO Plant and SSG Pilot Plant: hint for comparison of two wave energy converters.

Wavetrain project
• 11/04/2005 to 31/12/2005 – Iain Russell (United Kingdom) – Function: Elaboration of an environmental evaluation of wave energy in Portugal and Europe.
• 01/03/2005 to 31/05/2006 – Veronica La Regina (Italy) – Function: Elaboration of a socio-economic evaluation of wave energy in Portugal and Europe
• 15/05/2006 to 29/02/2008 – Cristina Huertas Olivares (Spain) – Function: Elaboration of an environmental evaluation of wave energy in Portugal and Europe.

 

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