MarmaraSea,locatedbetweenBlackSeaandAegeanSea,isanimportantseaforoceanengineeringactivities.Inthisstudy,wavepowerpotentialofMarmaraSeawasinvestigatedusingthethirdgenerationspectralwind-wavemodelMIKE21SWwithunstructuredmesh.WinddatawasobtainedfromECMWFERA-Interimre-analyseswinddatasetat10mwithaspatialresolutionof0.1?fortheperiodof1994to2014.ThenumericalmodelwascalibratedwithmeasuredwavedatafromabuoystationlocatedinMarmaraSea.Meshoptimizationwasalsoperformedtoobtainthemostsuitablemeshstructureforthestudyarea.ThisstudyisthefirstthatdealtwiththedeterminationofwaveenergypotentialofMarmaraSea.Thenumericalmodelresultsarepresentedintermsofmonthly,seasonalandannualaverageofwavepowerflux(kWm-1).Themaximumwavepowerfluxis1.13kWm-1andoccursinNovember.Theoverallannualmeanwavepowerfluxduring1994–2014isfoundtobe0.27kWm-1intheoffshoreregions.
