A new sediment bed system for the Coastal & Ocean Basin (COB), to enhance its testing capabilities for offshore renewable energy, offshore and coastal engineering, aquaculture and nature-based solutions.

Influence of infragravity sea waves during storms on the hydro- and morphodynamic processes along hybrid soft-hard coastal defence structures with a shallow foreshore

Advanced Analyses of Laterally Loaded Offshore Wind Turbines in Combination with Monitoring Data

Coupled geotechnical-hydrodynamic modelling of a monopile foundation in an offshore wind farm under cyclic behavior

Design and installation of bivalve mollusk reefs for biodiversity restoration purposes and nature-inclusive design of adapted marine infrastructure

Development of numerical simulation tools for a floating offshore wind turbine in extreme wave conditions

Doctoral project Anke Herremans

Doctoral project Brecht Devolder

Doctoral project Carlos Arboleda Chavez

Doctoral project David Gallach Sanchez

Doctoral project Diego Gomez-Bautista

Doctoral project Dieter Meire

Doctoral project Gael Verao Fernandez

Doctoral project Gözde Güney Dogan

Doctoral project Ine Vandebeek

Doctoral project Jan Putteman

Doctoral project Rebeca Roldán González

Doctoral project Samuel Rieder

Experimental Modelling of Point Absorber Wave Energy Converter Arrays with Control Design Based on Impedance Matching

Experimental Study on Stability of Scour Protection around Offshore Monopile Foundations

Generation of Homogeneous Wave Fields in Phase Resolving Wave Propagation Models

Hydrodynamic Modelling of Wave Interactions with Sea Dikes on Shallow Foreshores: A Systematic Approach by Physical and Numerical Modelling

Influence of infragravity sea waves during storms on the hydro- and morphodynamic processes along hybrid soft-hard coastal defence structures with a shallow foreshore

Influence of infragravity sea waves during storms on the hydro dynamic processes along hybrid soft-hard coastal defence structures with a shallow foreshore

Integrated Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics platform for modelling marine renewable energy technologies and moored floating structures validated using experimental modelling

Numerical and physical modelling of a floating offshore wind turbine with an artificial reef structure

Numerical and physical modelling of storm wave interactions with a hybrid dune-dike nature-based solution

Numerical hydroelastic analysis of moored flexible offshore floating structures

Numerical Modelling of Moored Floating Structures and Energy Devices Using a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics-Based Solver

Numerical Modelling of Wave-Flexible Vegetation Interactions Using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method

Study of the dynamic response of a 6 degrees of freedom wave energy converter under wave-current-tide interaction

Doctoral project Frans van Eeden

Doctoral project Jeffrey Verbeurgt

Doctoral project Serge Tichko

3D Navier-Stokes modeling of air entrainment in breaking water waves and its effect on the compressibility of water during violent impact at coastal structures

A new state-of-the-art motion capturing system for testing new emerging offshore and coastal engineering technologies in the new "Coastal & Ocean wave Basin (COB)" in Ostend

BEL-Float: Catalyzing the Belgian industrial expertise in floating wind through academic innovation

Blue Accelerator

circUlar Low Trophic oFfshore Aquaculture in wind farms and Restoration of Marine Space

Coastal defense systems based on the ‘Building with Nature’ principles: interdisciplinary project on coastal and ecology engineering and marine biology.

Combined hydrodynamic modeling of near and far field wake effects for optimal design of farms of wave energy converters

Demonstration of a 1-MW wave energy converter integrated in an offshore wind turbine farm — UPWAVE

Demonstration of Dune-Dike hybrid blue-grey Nature-based Solutions

Design of Ostend Harbour: Numerical Simulation of Wave Propagation

Design rules for alternative technical-ecological bank protection on non-tidal navigabale waterways under ship wave loading.

Detailed hydrodynamic modeling of wave energy converters in the near field and the coupling methodology for improving the accuracy of far field simulations

Developing offshore renewable energy technologies by accurate numerical modelling techniques for soil-cable and soil-moorings interactions

Development and construction of 25 wave energy converter scale models for large-scale experimental testing in a wave basin

Development of a 3D numerical model with adaptive grid for the prediction of free-forming meanders in a river

Development of a point absorber wave energy converter: design of the power take-off, and optimization of the geometry and installation techniques, for performing large scale experiments on wave energy converter farms

Development of prediction formulae for the dynamic stability of scour protection around monopile foundations under combined wave-current loading, accounting for scale effects

Eco-hydraulic modelling of estuarine processes

ENCORE - Energizing Coastal Regions with Offshore Renewable Energy

Experimental and numerical study of the hydrodynamical behaviour and structural response of wave energy convertors base don wave overtopping

Experimental study and numerical modelling of combined near-field interactions and far-field effects of wave energy converter farms

Experimental study and numerical modelling of combined near-field interactions and far-field effects of wave energy converter farms

Experimental study of the stability of offshore monopile scour protection.

Flemish research Gen4Wave

Gen4Wave

Influence of combined wave-current loading and scale effects on dynamically stable offshore monopile scour protections 

Integrated Designs for Future Floating Offshore Wind Farm Technology

Integrated phase-resolving modelling of nearshore hydrodynamics, sediment transport and morphological evolution in coastal zones

Integrated Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics platform for modelling marine renewable energy technologies and moored floating structures validated using experimental modelling

Integrated Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics platform for modelling marine renewable energy technologies and moored floating structures validated using experimental modelling.

Linking optical imaging techniques and 2D-modelling for studying spatial heterogeneity in vegetated streams and rivers

Marine Renewable Energy Distributed Research Infrastructure - Preparatory Phase

Marine Renewable Energy Research Infrastructure

Modelling of moored floating structures and marine renewable energy technologies using a non-linear numerical approach and experiments in wave testing facilities.

Modelling the eco-geomorphological evolution of tidal marshes

MP Multi Use: Multi-(re)-use scenarios for existing offshore infrastructure: a conceptual, economical, legal and structural reliability study

Nature-based coastal defense systems on waves-currents-seagrass interaction: interdisciplinary research on coastal and ecology engineering and marine biology

Nature friendly bank protection against ship waves on non-tidal navigable waterways

Numerical hydroelastic analysis of moored flexible offshore floating structures

Numerical modelling of moored floating structures and energy devices using a non-linear approach

Numerical modelling of moored floating structures and energy devices using a non-linear approach

Numerical modelling of near-field and far-field wake effects of a farm of wave energy coverters using irregular short-crested waves and the effect of wind regeneration in time-dependent wave propagation models.

Numerical study and experimental validation of a 2D model for a coupled modelling of river ecosystems using the STRIVE package

Numerical study and experimental validation of a 2D model hydraulic model for a coupled modeling of river ecosystems using the STRIVE package

Offshore for Sure (O4S)

Oostende Numerical muddy teaching of the wave penetration for the purpose of the OW-plan

Physical model tests port Blankenberge

Research for scale model of Port Access in Zeebrugge

Simulations impact super storms on the seawall

The functioning of river ecosystems through plant-flow-soil interactions.

Time-resolving modelling of wave propagation in a very shallow foreshore characterised by a chain of small islands

windSOIL: Design Optimization of offshore wind foundations using improved soil-structure interaction models based on in-situ measurements and medium-scale experiments

CREST - climate resilient coast

Engineering sustainable marine ecosystems for environmental and human health

FlanSea: Research and development of a wave energy converter concept suitable for medium wave climate

Hydrodynamic modelling of the flow of self-compacting concrete in complex-shaped formwork

Recovery of Oyster Reefs on Marine Infrastructure for Nature Restoration and Creation (Reefcovery)

research seawall: simulations and visualizations failure behavior seawall

Safe Cost integrated coastal safety - Coastal Flood Risk Calculations (addendum 8)