LABIMA & A-MARE Maritime Engineering Laboratories of Florence University, with the DualSPHysiscs team, proudly announce the 4th edition of the Hands-on Course on Experimental and Numerical Modelling of Wave-Structure Interaction.  The Training School is specifically designed for those interested in developing numerical and experimental modelling techniques of Wave Energy Converters (WEC).

The hands-on course aims to introduce experimental and numerical modelling approaches for simulating wave-structure interactions. The same structure and wave condition will be modelled both experimentally and numerically, studying wave-structure phenomena interaction in a physical wave tank and in its numerical counterpart. The mission of the course is to provide clear evidence that the experimental and the numerical modelling approaches can complement each other and that a Hybrid Wave Tank (HWT) constitutes a unique and powerful research installation.

The course will provide around 30 hours of lessons and training sessions, over 5 days. The first day will include lectures on experimental modelling, fundamentals of wave energy, WECs and an introduction to laboratory practice conducted during the second day. On the third day, trainees will collaborate in working groups to develop a project based on the collected laboratory data.  The theoretical background of SPH and a first hands-on session with DualSPHysics will be provided on the fourth day. The second hands-on session is scheduled for the fifth day. Each working group will present the project work results during the last session of the course.