Reply to: Discussion on “review of CFD studies on axial-flow self-rectifying turbines for OWC wave energy conversion” by Cui, Y., Liu, Z., Zhang, X. and Xu, C

Abstract This work is a response to the discussion paper by Ghisu, T. and Cambuli, F. on our recent review paper (Ciu er al., 2019) published in Ocean Engineering. Two main reasons are given for the exclusion of parts of their papers from our review. First, our literature retrieval process was not able to use any published work from after our submission date, nor any work with considerable and inappropriate self-duplications under the academic criterion of citing references. Second, we are skeptical of Ghisu's “transient” model, which employed a multiple reference frame model to coordinate with unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations and was unconvincing due to the lack of sufficient validation.