Spanò Antonino Simone

Civili Engineer

wave energy, wave-structure interaction, matched eigenfunction expansions
Reggio Calabria, Italy
Researchgate

Floating structures coupled with OWC array: dynamic of the system and wave energy exploitation

Curricula:
CU3
Supervisor:
Prof. Ing. Felice Arena, Prof. Ing. Giovanni Malara
Affiliation:
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria
Langues:
Italian, English

About me

Thanks to my mixed educational background of classical and scientific studies (firstly at school and later at university) I gained useful skills to approach a problem from different perspectives. I am a creative thinker but also an highly organizer, result-oriented and considering the pressure as a great motivator. I like to excel at what I do and lookout for new opportunities to develop my experience, especially in my field of ocean engineering.

My research

The future of renewable energies finds great development at sea thanks to the larger space and the lower environmental impact. The aim of this project is to analyze the dynamic of a floating structure coupled with an OWC’s array on the boundary to produce energy from wave motion. Based on the potential theory, trough the method of matched eigenfunction expansion, will be formulate the system of differential equations to solve the dynamic problem.