William Otto
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Magazine
NaturSea-pv project advances MARIN's modelling techniques for flexible structures
5 Mar 2025
NaturSea-PV is a project within the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme addressing the need for a sustainable, reliable and competitive ...
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Innovative crash barrier concepts to prevent ship collisions with wind turbines
11 Jun 2023
The rapid development of offshore wind farms coincides with a growing amount of ship movements. This combination puts pressure on maritime safety, ...
Magazine
Floating solar concepts under scrutiny
20 Apr 2023
More than 70% of the surface of our blue planet is covered with water. The Netherlands lies on a river delta and is inextricably linked to the sea. ...
Paper
Hydro-Elastic Behavior of an Inflatable Mattress in Waves
10 Jul 2022
The wave induced motion response of an inflatable mattress has been studied by wave basin experiments and numerical simulations. The floater of ...
Paper
Experimental study on a breaking-enforcing floating breakwater
11 Apr 2022
Floating breakwaters are moored structures that attenuate wave energy through a combination of reflection and dissipation. Studies into floating ...
Magazine
Flexible floating offshore islands
8 Apr 2022
Reading time 6 minutes
A Dutch consortium including four applied research institutes (MARIN, TNO, Deltares and WUR) is exploring the potential of combining a partially ...
Magazine
Towards large-scale FPV
30 Sep 2021
Floating Photovoltaics (FPV) is a rapidly growing market. The first commercial FPV plant, which was around 170 kWp, was realised in 2008 on an ...
Magazine
Floating Islands one step closer to realisation as Space@Sea project completes
7 Apr 2021
The Horizon 2020 funded Space@Sea project kicked off in November 2017, with the aim of taking a further step towards the efficient use of the ...
Paper
Conceptual Design and Model Tests for a Mid-Water Floating Hyperloop Tunnel
28 Jul 2020
Aviation has a significant impact on the global emission of greenhouse gasses. On the Northern Atlantic route alone there are over 2,500 crossings ...
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Optimization of Wave Induced Motions and Forces on a Floating Island
14 Jun 2019
Floating mega islands can provide an attractive solution for creating temporal or more permanent space in coastal areas with a high demand for real ...
Paper
On the wave induced motions of a floating mega island
22 Apr 2019
Floating mega islands can provide an attractive solution for creating temporal or more permanent space in coastal areas with a high demand for real ...
Magazine
Exploring the potential of floating solar energy
15 Dec 2018
Reading time 6 minutes
Solar energy is an important alternative energy source but in a densely populated country like the Netherlands the space for solar parks is very ...
Paper
Model tests and numerical analysis for a floating mega island
17 Jun 2018
About 70% of the earth’s surface area is covered with water. Due to the sea level rise and increasing population in coastal areas we need to use our ...
Magazine
Model tests for the world’s first deepwater FLNG
25 Apr 2018
Reading time 3 minutes
MARIN recently carried out a model test campaign on a FLNG that is expected to be the first deep-water FLNG in the world.The FLNG will be a ...
Magazine
Joint R&D in Offshore JIPs
22 Apr 2016
Reading time 6 minutes
The offshore industry works closely together to share knowledge,
experience and costs. Here we give an update on the latest Joint
Industry Projects. ...
Paper
Development of a Scaled-Down Floating Wind Turbine for Offshore Basin Testing
8 Jun 2014
In the last years MARIN has been involved in an increasing number of projects for the offshore wind industry. New techniques in model testing and ...
Paper
State of the art model testing techniques for floating wind turbines
23 Feb 2013
After the present generation shallow water fixed wind turbines, floating wind turbines are considered to be the next step in development of offshore ...
Paper
Viscous-Flow Calculations On An Axial Marine Current Turbine
1 Jul 2012
In this paper, the flow over a marine current turbine is studied. As a test case, the benchmark turbine published in [1, 2] is selected. A ...
