SuperGen UK Centre for Marine Energy Research Annual Assembly

Pollock Halls, Edinburgh - 27th November 2015

• 09.00  SuperGen 3 UK Centre for Marine Energy Research
  • Prof. Robin Wallace 
     

Extreme Loadings and Durability

• 09.15  Modelling Marine Renewable Energy Devices: Designing for Survivability
  • Dr. Johannes Spinneken 
    

     

• 09.30  Condition Monitoring Tidal Turbines: Waves, Structural Loads and Survivability
  • Prof. Tim O’Doherty 
    

     

• 09.45  X-MED: Extreme Loading of Marime Energy Devices Due to Waves, Currents, Flotsam and Mammal Impact
  • Prof. Peter Stansby 
    

     

• 10.00  The Importance of Sheared Currents on Loads
  • Prof. Paul Taylor 
    

     

Arrays and Farms

• 10.45  Array Modelling for Tidal Stream Turbine
  • Dr. Ian Masters 
    

     

• 11.00  Devices, Power Take-off and Reliability
  • Dr. Kate Porter 
    
• 11.15  Research into WEC Arrays
  • Dr. Matt Folley 
    
• 11.30  Modelling of Marine Energy Converter Arrays
  • Dr. David Forehand
    

     

• 11.45  Momentum Reversal Lift Turbine Arrays
  • Dr. Duncan Sutherland 
    

     

Environmental Interaction 

• 12.00  TeraWatt - Assessing the Impact of Multi-Site Arrays on the Physical and Biological Processes Over a Wider Region
  • Prof. Jon Side 
    

     

• 12.15  Large Scale Interactive Coupled Modelling of Environmental Impacts of Marine Renewable Energy Farms (LINC)
  • Dr. Louise Kregting
    

     

• 12.30  High Fidelity Tidal Turbine Modelling: the Sound of Islay
  • Dr. Angus Creech 
    

     

• 12.45  The Impact of Tidal Stream Turbines on 3D Flow and Bed Shear Stress
  • Prof. Daniel Parsons 
    

     

Novel Marine Energy Systems and Components

• 14.00  STEP-WEC: Step Change for Wave Energy Cconversion Through Floating Multi-Body Multi-Mode Systems
  • Prof. Peter Stansby 
    

     

• 14.15  The Hydrodynamics of Deformable Flexible Fabric Structures for Wave Energy Conversion
  • Dr. Adi Kurniawan 
    

     

• 14.30  Increasing the Life of Marine Turbines by Design and Innovation
  • Dr. Anna Young 
    

     

• 14.45  Reducing the Costs of Marine Renewables via Advanced Structural Materials (ReC-ASM)
  • Prof. Margaret Stack
    

     

• 15.00  Underwater Acoustic Condition Monitoring & Novel Mooring Tether
  • Prof. Lars Johanning 
    

     

Capacity Building, Engagement and Internationalisation

• 15.45  Capacity Building
  • Dr. Tom Bruce 
    

     

• 16.00  Impact and Internationalisation
  • Henry Jeffrey 
    

     

Guest Presentations

• 16.15  Update on ORE-Catapult R&D Activities
  • Ignacio Marti Perez 
    

     

• 16.30  Flowave Ocean Energy Research Facility
  • Dr. Tom Davey 
    

     

• 16.45  Wave Energy Scotland
  • Henry Jeffrey 
    

     

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