SuperGen Marine Energy Annual Assembly
Pollock Halls, Edinburgh - 1st October 2008

Programme - morning

• 10.00 Welcome and overview
  • Prof Robin Wallace
• 10.10 SuperGen objectives and review
  • Prof Ian Bryden
• 10.30 Real Time Wide Area Wave Tracking
  • Brian Sellar - UoE
• 10.45 Optical wave gauge
  • Dr Grégory Payne - UoE
• 11.30 Large tank testing in arrays
  • Brian Linfoot - HWU
• 12.00 Progress towards the sea
  • Prof Trevor Whittaker - Queens
• 12.30 Economics of variability and penetration
  • Prof Peter McGregor - Strathclyde

Programme - afternoon

• 14.00 Capacity building
  • Dr David Ingram - UoE
• 14.15 Internationalisation
  • Henry Jeffrey - UoE
• 14.30 UKERC Marine R&D Roadmap
  • Dr Markus Mueller - UoE
• 14.45 EQUIMAR
  • Dr David Ingram - UoE
• 15.00 Facilitated engagement workshop
  • All attendees
• 16.00 Feedback and close
  • Prof Robin Wallace

Poster session

• Hydrostatic Lubrication of Linear Generators
  • Adam Bedford
• Improved mooring design for WEC devices in an array formation
  • Andrew Vickers
• Co-ordinated Control in Arrays
  • Anup Nambiar
• Point wave energy converter for coastal protection and electricity generation
  • Armando Alexandre
• CFD simulations of active wavemakers
  • Eoghan Maguire
• Turbine analysis using computational fluid dynamics
  • Gareth Gretton
• Vertical Axis Turbines for Marine Current Energy Conversion
  • Jon Winchester
• Numerical modelling of the response of the tidal resource to barrage and lagoon developments
  • Laura Taylor
• CFD Techniques for Modelling Marine Current Turbine Arrays under Oceanic Flows
  • Matt E Harrison
• Reliability Models for Ocean Energy Converters
  • Mo Haghigi
• The CO2 Trade Balance in the UK: The Role of Prices in Transmitting Economic Shocks
  • Michelle Gilmartin
• Scale Effects in Tidal Current Energy Device Testing
  • Patricia Okorie
• Reliability of marine energy converters
  • Philipp Thies
• Non-Linear Feedback Control Applied to Marine Energy Collectors
  • Philip Cross
• Quantifying the influence of sea state parameters over WEC performances
  • Remy Pascal
• Direct-Drive Power Take Off
  • Richard Crozier
• Quantifying “exposure” with Cost Effective Wave Resource Measurements
  • Robert Beharie
• Investigation into the effects of Arrays and Ducting on a Marine Current Turbine
  • Sam Rose
• Moorings and Fixings
  • Sam Euridge
• Smooth Operators
  • Sarah Caraher