Our offer
Supporting technology and farm developers to optimise system design and offshore operations based on solid experience in sea state observation and modelling
- Extreme sea states: estimation of 50-year design sea states for a given site
- Slamming: definition of slamming loads on an offshore wind turbine
- Dangerous areas: characterisation of high-amplitude wave areas at the ORE sites
- Coastal hydrodynamics: 3D wave field reconstruction using stereoscopy
Our references
- Leading and scientific contribution to the COASTWAVE, DIME and DIMPACT collaborative projects
- Improvement of the representation of extreme sea states in the Atlantic and Mediterranean
- Characterisation of coastal sea states and breaking waves using satellite observations
- Instrumentation and measurement campaigns from offshore observatories: La Jument lighthouse in North Brittany, Unitech Zefyros floating wind turbine off Norway
- Recommendations for the industrial sector
- Service provided for a private player in the water sector
- Measurement campaign and numerical reconstruction of waves to better understand sea states and submersion on the Grande Plage of Biarritz in South West France
Our resources
- A team of oceanographers with complementary skills: modelling and observation of extreme sea states
- Protocol and instrumentation
- Proven protocol to instrument offshore structures to study wave/structure interactions
- System of stereovideo cameras to film wave propagation in real time and in 3D
- Pressure sensors
- Datawell Directional Wave Buoy, Waverider DWR MKiii model (diameter 70 cm)
- ADCP to measure wave parameters over long periods (several months)
- Numerical tools
- Spectral models (WAVEWATCH III®)
- Phase resolved wave model for breaking waves
- Laws for breaking waves statistics
- Databases
- Giant wave measurement campaigns (geometry and kinematics) off Ushant Island initiated in winter 2017 and still ongoing
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