Hydrodynamic Regime Analysis in the Shore Area Taking Into Account the New Master Plan Implementation for the Coastal Protection at the Romanian Shore

Study of the Wave Energy Propagation Patterns in the Western Black Sea

“…Furthermore, most of the studies [12][13][14][15] indicate that the climate change will induce significant enhancements of the wind speed in the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins.On the other hand, although the potential of wave energy in the Black Sea is not comparable with that from the ocean [16][17][18], the expected advances of the WEC (Wave Energy Converters) technologies may make this coastal environment interesting also for the implementation of the marine energy farms, especially as regards the hybrid wind-wave projects. Many coastal areas in the Black Sea are subjected to high erosion processes and the future nearshore farms can play an important role in the coastal protection, because they extract (or dissipate) part of the wave energy before the waves arriving to the shore [19][20][21][22][23][24]. Furthermore, this is a general problem for many coastal environments and the marine energy farms, besides providing electricity, can become an effective solution in the struggle against the coastal erosion [25][26][27].From this perspective, the present work has as a main objective to assess the most recent wave energy propagation patterns in the western side of the Black Sea.…”