Exciting times ahead at Coastal & Ocean Basin Ostend! To support the renovation of the Fort Boyard in front of the French Atlantic coast, we will conduct 3D physical model tests at the COB, focussing on the wave dominated processes such as overtopping, loading and wave transmission. The 3D scale models of the protective construction and harbour are being finalized now, physical tests will start soon. Thank you for your confidence Département de la Charente-Maritime, Artelia, BRL Ingénierie, Groupe ETPO, ARCHITECTURE PATRIMOINE and BUILDERS École d'ingénieurs. We are very grateful to cooperate on this project and are already looking forward to the result once the renovation of this iconic site will be completed. Our director, Maximilian Streicher, was interviewed by VRT NWS about the project, read the article (in Dutch) here: https://lnkd.in/dAc5R-ba #coastalengineering #FortBoyard
Coastal & Ocean Basin Ostend
Research Services
The Coastal & Ocean Basin is a unique wave tank to facilitate development and testing of coastal and offshore structures
About us
The Coastal & Ocean Basin (COB) research facility, located in Flanders Maritime Laboratory at Ostend Science Park, has been designed in order to facilitate highly accurate testing of coastal and offshore engineering scale models. This state-of-the-art concrete wave tank, (L 30 m x W 30 m x H 2.3 m) boasts a number of unique features, such as the ability to generate waves and current at any relative angle. Extreme directional wave conditions with a wave height up until 0.55 m in combination with maximum current velocities of 0.4 m/s can be generated. Coastal & Ocean Basin Ostend is managed by a consortium composed of Ghent University, KU Leuven and Flanders Hydraulics Research. The COB welcomes users from academia, industry and governmental institutions.
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- coastal engineering, research services, offshore engineering, wave research, and coastal research
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Wetenschapspark 8
Oostende, 8400, BE
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Great opportunity for professionals who want to expand their knowledge of offshore wind energy! UGain - UGent Academie voor Ingenieurs provides three tracks of lifelong learning courses on all aspects of offshore wind energy, with a mix of academic and industrial speakers. Check out the program via the link below! #offshorewind #lifelonglearning #ghentuniversity
Catch the wave of offshore wind & acquire a broad knowledge from a technological and multidisciplinary perspective! 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵-𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 'OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY' 3 tracks. 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 -> https://lnkd.in/eTd_xpMz 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘹 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴: Lieven Vandevelde, Aymen Chaouachi, Carl Heiremans, Pieter Jan Jordaens, Filip Lahaye, Raoul van Lambalgen, Kristof Van Loon, Margot Van Nuffel, Joeri Haenen, Bram Cloet, Frederik De Belie, Jan Declercq, Joris Degroote, Tijl Deneut, Rob De Roo, Christof Devriendt, Ronny Dewaele, Wim De Waele, Dieter Fauconnier, Eric Finé, Sonja Goris, Jan Helsen, Karen Hemelsoet, Dirk Hoet, Rauwoens, Frank Schouteeten, Marc Steensels, Maximilian Streicher, Bruno Stuyts, Wouter Tavernier, Frederik Vandenbroucke, Dirk Van Hertem, Kenneth Vannieuwenhuyse, Wim Van Paepegem, Bashir Bakhshideh Zad, Lars Brenne, Jef Van Valckenborgh, Bérénice Crabs, Steven Degraer, Pascal Geerinck, Angelo Goethals, Jan Heinen, Mieke Mathys, Tim Schyvens, Frederik Vandendriessche, Marc Vermylen, Michel Verschuere & Paco Vereycken.
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First call for applications for RISEnergy Transnational Access is now opened! Coastal & Ocean Basin Ostend is one of the state-of-the-art facilities that can be accessed through RISEnergy's Transnational Access programme. The RISEnergy project offers industrial and academic researchers easy, seamless, and free-of-charge access to a selection of the best research infrastructures and services related to renewable energy technologies in Europe. RISEnergy supports research and innovation activities across a wide range of renewable energy topics, including biomass, concentrated solar power, energy storage, hydrogen, information and communication technology, materials for energy, ocean energy, photovoltaics, offshore wind and smart grids. The Transnational Access programme offers researchers and technology developers opportunities to work on these research topics via a transparent evaluation process and common access modalities. Do you want to explore opportunities for testing at Coastal & Ocean Basin Ostend? Get in touch with us today, we are looking forward to supporting you! The deadline for submission is 30th November 2024 (https://lnkd.in/et7GVNG6). For more information about the process, please visit https://lnkd.in/e7k9EBAB. On 14th October (11:00-12:00 CET) MARINERG-i will be holding a webinar presenting testing services and opportunities to potential users. You can register for the webinar here: https://lnkd.in/eSgxs8NP. #coastalengineering #offshorenegineering #opportunities #funding #RISEnergy #MARINERGi
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Check out the services provided by MARINERG-i to the Offshore Renewable Energy sector! The Coastal & Ocean Basin Ostend opens its doors to receive applications for transnational access and testing of ORE technolgies via the RISEnergy project. More information will be provided during the webinar.
Join us for a Webinar presenting MARINERG-i Testing Services & Opportunities Our keynote speaker, Dr. Jimmy Murphy, will also present on the upcoming funding calls for ORE testing with RISENERGY Register for free at https://lnkd.in/e4iaQiAi Ocean Energy Europe Plataforma Oceánica de Canarias (PLOCAN) MaREI
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First prototype testing and fine-tuning of the brand-new current system in COB! Achieved current velocity profile and turbulence intensity are already on spot. In the coming months, the full system will be installed and further optimized. Once the installation is completed, COB will be able to offer enhanced testing services and generate a unique combination of waves and currents in any relative direction. #coastalengineering #offshorenegineering #research #flumefriday
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During the Coastlab2024 conference, hosted by Delft University of Technology, our director Maximilian Streicher had the chance to talk about the development of our new wave tank facility. Thank you Maria Sklia for this interesting podcast and your engaging questions! Link to the full recording can be found in the initial post below. Have a nice #FlumeFriday 🌊! #CoastalEngineering #OffshoreEngineering #PhysicalModelling #Research
What an insightful discussion with Maximilian Streicher, the director of the Coastal & Ocean Basin Ostend, about the development of this new physical modelling facility in Belgium! 💡 In this discussion Max shares his experience about setting up this new physical modelling facility, and its unique positioning. The technical features of the basin that recently became operational are presented, along with future plans, and upcoming projects! 🎧The full recording is now available in Mixcloud: https://lnkd.in/dxXAJ7Jh Happy #flumefriday! 🌊 📑 For more info, please refer to the Conference Proceedings: Title: Evaluation Of The Accuracy Of The Generated Wave Fields In The Coastal & Ocean Basin (COB) Authors: Maximilian Streicher, Yuri Pepi, Wietse Stroobant, Timothy V., Laurens Cromheeke, Ivandito Herdayanditya, Evert Lataire, Tim Aertsens, Pieter Rauwoens, Jaak Monbaliu, Tomohiro Suzuki, Dieter Vanneste, Karim Bellafkih, Peter Troch 🔗 Link to the article: https://lnkd.in/dDv-WftF 📌 This podcast was recorded during Coastlab24, the 9th Conference on Physical Modelling in Coastal Engineering that was hosted by TU Delft, in May 2024. Coastlab24 webpage: https://lnkd.in/dTa3TCVc TU Delft | Civil Engineering and Geosciences || TU Delft | OPEN Publishing || Delft University of Technology || Ghent University || #Coastlab24 #CoastalEngineering #PhysicalModelling #TUDelft #OffshoreEngineering #OffshoreRenewables #Research
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The #FloatingWindChallenge stimulates young engineers worldwide to design and build the best floating wind support structure. KU Leuven students used the Coastal & Ocean Basin Ostend to stress test their designs and prepare for the global event that takes place on 4th of July in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône, France. The Belgian teams are supported by Parkwind, OffshoreWind4Kids and Elicio, and promoted by prof. Pieter Rauwoens and prof. Jaak Monbaliu. It was a pleasure to see the students' enthusiasm and to support the engineers of the future with our expertise at Coastal & Ocean Basin. #flumefriday #floatingwind #offshorewind #offshoreengineering #youngengineers
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Our wave basin facilities recently got a major upgrade, with the installation of a measurement bridge and walking platforms. The 30 m long measurement bridge - spanning the entire basin - can be fitted with cutting-edge measuring and sensoring tools for highly accurate and reliable measurements during test campaigns, thus allowing for unparalleled accuracy in data collection. The movable walking bridge above the basin and two walking platforms on both sides offer researchers and operators the opportunity to follow tests even more closely from different angles, ensuring they can monitor every aspect of the experiments in real-time. A big thank you to our skilled team and suppliers #MetalTechnicsKJ and CEVAN Metalworks for the nice cooperation. #CoastalEngineering #OffshoreEngineering #CoastalResearch
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It was a pleasure to attend #Coastlab24 in Delft. Many thanks to the chairs Bas Hofland, Marcel van Gent and local organizing committee for the excellent conference. The opportunity to connect and discuss new advances in physical modelling and laboratory techniques in coastal engineering was well taken.
Full professor of Coastal Structures (TU Delft), Science board member (Deltares), Editor-in-Chief Coastal Engineering (Elsevier)
It was a pleasure for us to host the Coastlab24 conference in Delft last week. We started with a well received pre-conference workshop and ice breaker in the old city hall of Delft. The 130 conference presentations started with a great keynote address by professor Heidi Nepf (MIT, USA) on "Vegetation hydrodynamics to inform climate mitigation and adaptation" while the next day professor Josep R. Medina (UPV, Spain) provided an inspiring keynote lecture on "Breakwaters in a living environment". The Dutch project on the rehabilitation of the Afsluitdijk was clearly presented in a keynote presentation by Emiel Boerma on behalf of the client (Rijkswaterstaat) and Coen Kuiper on behalf of the designer and contractor (Levvel). Participants of the post-conference tour inspected the new Afsluitdijk as well as a few other hydraulic engineering landmarks. Of course presenters from Delft also provided a fair share of presentations, such as: Alessandro Antonini (TU Delft): Delta Flume tests on a salt marsh Aron Lawniczak (TU Delft): Coastalock armour units Bas Hofland (TU Delft): Embedded sensors for rocking analysis Christian van Nieuwenhuizen (Deltares): Propellor jet induced scour Davide Wüthrich (TU Delft): Short course on tsunami's Dimitris Dermentzoglou (TU Delft): Hydrodynamics at salt mash cliffs Dorette Regout (TU Delft): Air-water flow properties Ermano De Almeida (TU Delft & Arcadis): Wave attack on hydraulic structures Gal Akrish (TU Delft): Modelling of free infragravity waves Jim Tukker (TU Delft & Boskalis): Field measurements on bow thruster attack on bed Joost den Bieman (Deltares): Non-hydrostatic modelling of foreshores in wave flumes Marcel van Gent (Deltares & TU Delft): Structure-induced wave set-up Marisol Irías Mata (Deltares): Hybrid modelling of wave overtopping Menno de Ridder (Deltares & TU Delft): Separation of incident and reflected waves Patricia Mares Nasarre (TU Delft): Ship-wave attack on groynes Paul Bayle (TU Delft): Delta Transport Processes Laboratory Su Kalloe (TU Delft): Delta Flume tests with willow trees Suzanna Zwanenburg (Deltares): Delta Flume tests on grass covers Tobias van Batenburg (Deltares & TU Delft) & Sargol Memar (TU Delft & Van Oord): Damage to rock groins by ship waves Vera van Bergeijk (Deltares): Artificial reefs to reduce wave loading Thank you to all 130 presenters, all other participants, moderators, Maria Sklia for arranging the podcasts, and sponsors (Deltares, Rijkswaterstaat, Van Oord, Van Halteren Technologies, Nortek, Infram Hydren, Ubertone and MadTTech) who made this conference a success. #Coastlab24 #TUDelft #Deltares
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We are delighted to welcome ECOncrete at the Coastal & Ocean Basin Ostend. ECOncrete solutions have been implemented globally in ports, piers, breakwaters, subsea and other concrete marine infrastructures to support biodiversity and a healthy ecosystem. In the coming weeks, we will support ECOncrete in testing their technology for a novel scour protection solution placed around an offshore wind turbine monopile. The goal of these physical model tests is to assess the static and dynamic hydraulic stability of this nature-inclusive scour protection design on a sandy bottom, and submit it to a range of representative 3D environmental load conditions. Thank you ECOncrete and Jorge Gutiérrez Martínez for your trust, we are looking forward to the first steps of a successful cooperation. #coastalengineering #offshoreengineering #natureinclusivedesign #ECOncrete