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Mr. Eugen Rusu

Professor, Ph.D.

Profesor - UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS"

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Corresponding member of the Romanian Academy - ACADEMIA ROMANA (Romania)

Researcher | Teaching staff | Scientific reviewer | Manager | Consultant

Starting in 2006 is working as a professor collaborator at CENTEC http://www.centec.ist.utl.pt/en/centec/personnel.aspx?id=1, University of Lisbon. Since 2012, he is acting as an expert for the European Commission. He received awards including Doctor Honoris Causa (2015) at the Maritime University of Constanta, Romania Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Renewable Energy (2015) and Ocean Engineering (2016) journals; and Top 1% World Reviewers in the field of engineering (2018 and 2019). He is also the President of the Council of the Doctoral Schools in Galati University and of the Romanian National Commission of Mechanical Engineering. Since 2018, he has been a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy, the highest level scientific and cultural forum in Romania. Included in: world ranking of scientist (2%).xlsx Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eugen_Rusu Scientific interests: ocean energy, marine engineering, coastal hazards, wave and currents modeling.

Web of Science ResearcherID: 1170248/eugen-rusu

Curriculum Vitae (12/02/2024)

Expertise & keywords

CLimate change IMpact Evaluation on future WAve conditions at Regional scale for the Black and Mediterranean seas marine system Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de cercetare exploratorie - PCE-2021
PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-0015 2022 - 2024

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS"

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: https://climewar.ugal.ro/

Abstract:

The goal of the CLIMEWAR project is to evaluate the impact of climate changes on the future wave climate in the marine system defined by the Black and Mediterranean seas. A multi-model and multiple-scenario ensemble of the marine system wave climate projections over the last 60 years of the 21st Century will be generated based on the results of the SWAN (Simulating WAves Nearshore) model forced with Regional Climate Models (RCMs) driven by different boundary conditions, under RCPs and SSPs scenarios. The potential impact of climate change on the future sea state conditions is estimated by performing comparisons with the ensemble of the present wave climate (1976-2005). The present sea state conditions will be compared with observations and reliable hindcast data. The uncertainties associated with wave climate changes will be identified and quantified. Assuming that the statistical properties of the present climate biases are maintained in the future, bias correction methods will be applied to generate a bias-corrected ensemble of the wave climate projections. The future changes of the mean (annual, seasonal, and monthly) and extreme values of the main wave parameters in both basins will be evaluated, together with their variability and trends. Extreme value analysis will be performed in various key locations.

Dynamics of the REsources and technological Advance in harvesting Marine renewable energy Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie, 2020
PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-0008 2021 - 2023

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS"

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: https://dream.ugal.ro/

Abstract:

Starting from the high dynamics of the offshore wind industry noticed in the last years, the first objective of this project is to evaluate the expected wind parameters until the end of the 21st century considering different RCP scenarios. Various European coastal environments are targeted, including also the Black Sea. The results provided by regional atmospheric models (made available by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute) will be processed and analyzed and on this basis, the expected performances of the most recent wind technologies will be assessed. From this perspective, the project results will allow designing recommendations to the manufacturers for improving the technologies and adapt them better to the expected wind conditions for the locations targeted. Another issue is represented by the synergy of the wind with wave and solar energy. At this point, the advantages of collocation against the implementation of hybrid technologies will be analyzed. Another important objective is represented by a more comprehensive assessment of the near and far-field effects of marine energy farms. An original computational platform, combining high-resolution solvers for the microscale, with wave and nearshore circulation models for the macroscale, will be implemented and used. Finally, studies of various farm configurations and evaluations concerning the medium and long term impact of the marine energy farms on the shoreline dynamics will be performed.

Assessment of the Climate Change effects on the WAve conditions in the Black Sea Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie
PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0028 2017 - 2019

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS"

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" (RO)

Project website: http://www.im.ugal.ro/ACCWA/ ; https://www.researchgate.net/project/ACCWA-Assessment-of-the-Climate-Change-effects-on-the-WAve-conditions-in-the-Black-Sea

Abstract:

The ACCWA project aims to quantify the present and to explore the future wave climate in the Black Sea basin, with a special focus on the Romanian coastal environment. Extended simulations with the SWAN (Simulating WAves Nearshore) model, forced with Regional Climate Model wind fields, will be performed for three climate periods, of 30-year time-slice each. Slices of thirty years of data are considered by the World Meteorological Organization long enough to calculate an average that is not influenced by year-to-year variability. These time-slices will cover the ‘present’ conditions, regarded as the ‘control’ conditions, when the simulation results will be compared with observations, the ‘near future’ conditions that will cover the mid-21st century, and a century later into the ‘future’ conditions (the last 30-year period of the 21st century). Two sets of simulations corresponding to the future conditions will be made considering the new emission scenarios RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. Statistics (monthly, annual and seasonal) of the main wave parameters will be computed for the entire basin (with a special attention for the significant wave height), and various comparisons between the present and future climates will be made. Changes in the marine extreme events will be evaluated in some key locations. Approaches of extreme value analysis will be implemented for the estimation of the significant wave heights return values in various locations. The methods will be applied to the climatic time series spanning the ‘near future’ and ‘future’ periods, and the results will be compared to those corresponding to the ‘present’ simulations. In this way the future climatic trends of the extreme events will be evaluated. Based on the results obtained, potential future changes in the wave climate of the Black Sea will be assessed, especially to identify the possible trends in the sea wave climate. The expected coastal dynamics will be also assessed.

Renewable Energy extraction in MARine environment and its Coastal impact Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie
PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0017 2017 - 2019

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS"

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" (RO)

Project website: http://www.im.ugal.ro/REMARC/index.php; https://www.researchgate.net/project/REMARC-Renewable-Energy-extraction-in-MARine-environment-and-its-Coastal-impact

Abstract:

The main objective of the proposed project is to evaluate the renewable energy potential and the efficiency of the current extraction technologies in the vicinity of the European coastal environment, with a special focus on the Black Sea and on the Romanian nearshore. An important target is to identify the best locations from the point of view of the synergy between the wind and the wave power, but other sources, as currents and osmotic energy, will be also considered. By designing detailed joint marine energy maps, the project will provide a comprehensive picture of the marine energy resources in Europe. Identification of the hot spots from the point of view of the marine renewable energy will represent also an important objective of the proposed work. The offshore industry represents a very dynamic sector, and this concerns especially the technologies involved in harvesting the marine energy. From this perspective, a general survey of the technological advances related to the renewable energy extraction will be also performed, together with an evaluation of the efficiency of each technology in various coastal areas. A special target will represent the western side of the Black Sea, where the hybrid solutions appear to be more viable. A possible adaptation of the state of the art wind and wave energy converters to the specific conditions of the Romanian coastal environment will be also considered, especially from the perspective of increasing the efficiency of the wave converters in the case of the small amplitude waves. Another issue is related to the coastal protection and impact provided by different farm configurations. The proposed exploratory project would provide important outcomes related to the knowledge concerning the renewable energy potential and the efficiency of the extraction technologies, as well as to the expected impact on the coastal dynamics, in the European marine environments, in general and in the Romanian nearshore, in special.

Data Assimilation Methods for improving the WAVE predictions in the Romanian nearshore of the Black Sea – DAMWAVE Call name: Exploratory Research Projects - PCE-2012 call
PN-II-ID-PCE-2012-4-0089 2013 - 2016

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS"

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA "DUNAREA DE JOS" (RO)

Project website: http://www.im.ugal.ro/DAMWAVE/

Abstract:

The present project is aiming towards the development of data assimilation procedures able to improve the wave predictions in the Black Sea basin and in the subsequent computational domains towards the Romanian nearshore. Such a system would provide a better decision support in various situations that can be associated with the usual coastal operations. Assimilation of the wave data is presently an issue of interest supported by the better accuracy and increased resolution of the altimeters that are operating at this moment. In a first approach, the proposed system will be implemented using hindcast wave data in order to provide reanalysis wave fields with higher accuracy. Multi-satellite significant wave heights as for example those provided by http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com, will be considered at this level. A further target would be to implement effective methodologies that would be able to increase also the accuracy of the nowcast and forecast products. Altimeter data from the European Space Agency will be used at this second step. Sequential procedures based on the improved successive corrections and the optimal interpolation methods will be implemented and evaluated in parallel. Alternatively, more complex methods will be also tested, as those based on the Kalman filtering. A balance between the accuracy of the wave predictions and the computational time required by the data assimilation method will be also considered in adopting the final procedure.

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