Amsterdam, May 2025

Oriol Colomés* ([email protected])

Offshore Floating Photovoltaics: Modelling Strategies and Challenges

• Main challenges OFPV technologies
• Modeling strategies for OFPV
• Mooring systems for OFPV
• Challenges in scaling up OFPV farms

Hydroelastic analysis of flexible multi-platform

• Colomés, Oriol, Francesc Verdugo, and Ido Akkerman. "A monolithic finite element formulation for the hydroelastic analysis of very large floating structures." International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 124.3 (2023): 714-751. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/nme.7140
• Agarwal, Shagun, Oriol Colomés, and Andrei V. Metrikine. "Dynamic analysis of viscoelastic floating membranes using monolithic Finite Element method." Journal of Fluids and Structures 129 (2024): 104167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2024.104167
• Modderman, Jan, and Oriol Colomés. "Application of Unfitted Finite Element methods for estimating added mass and added damping in floating structures." Advances in Computational Science and Engineering 4 (2025): 142-167. 10.3934/acse.2025015

Dynamic analysis of synthetic mooring systems

• Oriol Colomés, Juan Tang, Somansundar Sakthivel, Shagun Agarwal, Kevin Jonathan and Sergio Sanchez Gómez. “Experimental and Numerical Modeling of Flexible Synthetic Mooring Lines for Floating Structures”. ISOPE 2025
• Shagun Agarwal and Oriol Colomés. “Finite-element model for geometric nonlinearity and dynamic stiffness of synthetic mooring lines”. ISOPE 2025

Ship-induced waves

• Khalil Akchikchi. “Ship-induced waves interacting with floating membranes: A three-dimensional hydroelastic analysis”. TU Delft MSc thesis, 2024

Coupled hydroelastic optoelectric performance