EVOLUTION OF THE ROMANIAN NEARSHORE CURRENTS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF WEC FARMS
Abstract
The objective of the present work is to evaluate the influence of two specific wave farms (a Pelamis and a Wave Dragon farm) on the longhsore currents circulation from the Saint George sector, located on the Romanian Black Sea coast. As a first step, the implementation of the two wave farms was made in the SWAN wave model while subsequently these results were further used by the NSSM model to assess the nearshore circulation. Regarding the numerical simulations, several case studies were considered in order to highlight the evolution of the currents between a normal and an extreme situation. In general, it can be mentioned that the parallel orientation of the farms to the coastline seems to be suitable because do not
restrict the natural flow of the sediments along the coast, while in some cases a reduction of the currents velocity was noticed, which can be associated both to the local bathymetry and to the wave farm length.
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