Thermodynamics and Morphodynamics in Wave Energy / SpringerBriefs in Energy (PDF)

respected peer-reviewed journals and made several contributions to prestigious international conferences. He has been a visiting researcher in leading institutions around the globe, and is currently involved in several national and international R+D projects.


María Clavero is an assistant lecturer on Marine Engineering at the University of Granada. With a PhD in Civil Engineering, she has more than 15 years' experience in the field of physical modelling, including wave energy conversion using OWC technology, wave-structure interaction, breakwater behaviour, air-sea interaction and wind engineering. She is the author of numerous publications in these research fields, with over 10 papers in peer-reviewed journals and several papers in the proceedings of prestigious international conferences. She has been involved in R+D projects for the Spanish Government and European Commission. For the last 10 years, she has been head of the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at the University of Granada.






Alistair Borthwick is a professor of Applied Hydrodynamics at the University of Edinburgh, an Emeritus Fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and holds adjunct professorships at Peking University and NUI Galway. He was head of Civil & Environmental Engineering at University College Cork from 2011-13, where he was the founding director of the SFI Centre for Marine Renewable Energy Ireland. Alistair was the founding chairman of the editorial board of the ICE Journal of Engineering and Computational Mechanics. He has almost 40 years' engineering experience. His research interests include environmental fluid mechanics, flood risk management, coastal processes, offshore engineering, and marine renewable energy.


Miguel Ortega-Sánchez is an associate professor of Coastal Engineering at the University of Granada with more than 15 years' experience in the field of coastal morphodynamics, and has published over 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has an MSc in Civil Engineering and during his PhD he studied large-scale coastal features. He has published works on coastal morphodynamics, combining field data, theoretical analysis and numerical models. He is currently leading different R+D projects involving nearshore waves, sediment transport, shoreline dynamics and coastal management techniques. He is also the head of the Environmental Hydraulics Master's Program at his University.