Advances in Renewable Energies Offshore Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore (RENEW 2018), October 8-10, 2018, Lisbon, Portugal Proceedings in Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering Series

Advances in Renewable Energies Offshore is a collection of the papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore (RENEW 2018) held in Lisbon, Portugal, on 8-10 October 2018. The 104 contributions were written by a diverse international group of authors and have been reviewed by an International Scientific Committee. The book is organized in the following main subject areas:

- Modelling tidal currents
- Modelling waves
- Tidal energy devices (design, applications and experiments)
- Tidal energy arrays
- Wave energy devices (point absorber, multibody, applications, control, experiments, CFD, coastal OWC, OWC and turbines)
- Wave energy arrays
- Wind energy devices
- Wind energy arrays
- Maintenance and reliability
- Combined platforms
- Moorings, and
- Flexible materials

Advances in Renewable Energies Offshore collects recent developments in these fields, and will be of interest to academics and professionals involved in the above mentioned areas.

Keynote lectures
Modelling tidal currents
Modelling waves
Tidal energy devices
Tidal energy arrays
Wave energy devices
Wave energy arrays
Wind energy devices
Wind energy arrays
Combined platforms
Moorings
Flexible materials
Diverse

Carlos Guedes Soares is a professor of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He received the MSc and Ocean Engineer degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1976, the PhD degree from the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, in 1984, and the Doctor of Science degree from the Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, in 1991.
Carlos is the President of the Centre for Marine Technology and Engineering (CENTEC), which is a research centre of the Instituto Superior Técnico that is recognized and funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. He has coauthored more than 400 journal papers and 600 conference papers and has been involved in more than 60 international research projects and 20 national projects.