{"id":2169,"date":"2025-10-08T21:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.civil.ihu.gr\/?page_id=2169"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:26:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:26:40","slug":"axis3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.civil.ihu.gr\/en\/axis3\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Axis 3: Marine and Hydraulic Engineering \u2013 Hydrodynamic Interaction of Structures and Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Computational and experimental modelling of hydrodynamic interaction of structures<\/li>\n<li>Analysis and design of offshore wind turbines (floating and fixed-bottom)<\/li>\n<li>Development of technological maturity and hydrodynamic analysis of wave energy converter arrays<\/li>\n<li>Analysis and design of offshore wind farm infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring and analysis of field measurements: (a) dynamic response, integrity and performance of marine structures, and (b) environmental quantitative and qualitative indicators of the marine environment<\/li>\n<li>Quantification and management of the resilience of coastal and offshore infrastructure and the marine environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Indicative Department research activity in this research axis:<\/h4>\n<table class=\"research-table\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"logo-cell\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2182\" src=\"https:\/\/www.civil.ihu.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/logo_xlalex.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"89\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"content-cell\">\n<div class=\"project-title\">2024\u2013present: Resilience of high-power fixed-bottom offshore wind turbines in the Thracian Sea (XL-ALEX)<\/div>\n<div class=\"project-details\">Funded by the IHU Research Committee (ELKE) Research Funding Programmes &#8220;PEE 2022&#8221;.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"logo-cell\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2181\" src=\"https:\/\/www.civil.ihu.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/logo_forcys.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"101\" height=\"101\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"content-cell\">\n<div class=\"project-title\">2023\u2013present: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forcys.civil.ihu.gr\/\">An alternative Floating OffshoRe wind turbine Concept technologY design (Acronym: FORCYS)<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"project-details\">Funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI). Programme &#8220;Greece 2.0, Basic Research Financing Action&#8221;. [IHU: Project coordinator]<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"logo-cell\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.civil.ihu.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/logo_hydrotec.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"76\" height=\"76\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"content-cell\">\n<div class=\"project-title\">2023\u2013present: <a href=\"https:\/\/hydrotec.cut.ac.cy\/\">Hydrogen production with the use of Solar Assisted Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion in the Mediterranean Sea (Acronym: HydrOTEC)<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"project-details\">Co-funded by EU Horizon and the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT).<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"logo-cell\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2179\" src=\"https:\/\/www.civil.ihu.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/logo_cymepa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"68\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"content-cell\">\n<div class=\"project-title\">2022\u20132023: Hydromechanical properties of measured data for the Marina Ayia Napa coastal area.<\/div>\n<div class=\"project-details\">Funded by the Cyprus Marine Environment Protection Association, Cyprus.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"logo-cell\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.civil.ihu.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/logo_emindset.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"87\" height=\"69\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"content-cell\">\n<div class=\"project-title\">2024*: East Med Marine Digitalisation for Smart Energy Transition (Acronym: e-MinDSET)<\/div>\n<div class=\"project-details\">HORIZON. (*Proposal ranked 3rd reserve \u2014 awaiting announcement of final funding decision.)<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"logo-cell\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.civil.ihu.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/logo_wecanet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"42\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"content-cell\">\n<div class=\"project-title\">2019\u20132023: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wecanet.eu\/about\">WECANet COST Action CA17105 \u2013 A pan-European Network for Marine Renewable Energy with a Focus on Wave Energy<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"project-details\">Funded by the European Union: Horizon 2020.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computational and experimental modelling of hydrodynamic interaction of structures Analysis and design of offshore wind turbines (floating and fixed-bottom) Development of technological maturity and hydrodynamic analysis of wave energy converter &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2169","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civil.ihu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civil.ihu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civil.ihu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civil.ihu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civil.ihu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.civil.ihu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2766,"href":"https:\/\/www.civil.ihu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2169\/revisions\/2766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civil.ihu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}