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.

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

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

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

ENCORE - Energizing Coastal Regions with Offshore Renewable Energy

Engineering sustainable marine ecosystems for environmental and human health

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

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.

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

Numerical hydroelastic analysis of moored flexible offshore floating structures

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

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

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

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

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.