时间：2015年7月9日星期四 上午10:00-11:00
地点：海洋工程研究所A301报告厅
报告人：Prof. Deborah Greaves, Plymouth University, Britain
题目：Making Waves in Offshore Renewables
摘要：Offshore Renewables and particularly wave and tidal energy are at a critical stage of development. It is estimated that wave and tidal offshore renewables have the potential to supply 15 – 20% of electricity demand for the UK. However, few of these technologies have yet been demonstrated at full scale in the ocean environment. Following investment in new research programs, demonstration sites and facilities for offshore renewables, the development of these new technologies is likely to accelerate over the coming years. Deborah Greaves will discuss new initiatives for offshore renewable energy research and development at Plymouth University, including the COAST Laboratory, the COAST research group projects in Offshore Renewables and the Partnership Research Institute for Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE). The research encompasses investigation of extreme loadings and survivability of wave energy devices and the design of novel concepts for MRE, including the use of flexible fabric structures. A significant aspect of the work is in developing new CFD algorithms for complex hydrodynamics alongside cutting edge physical experiments and examples will be discussed in which the fundamentals of wave structure interaction in the offshore environment are explored.
Speaker:
Deborah Greaves is Professor of Ocean Engineering and Director of the COAST (Coastal, Ocean and Sediment Transport) Laboratory in the School of Marine Science and Engineering at Plymouth University, she is Board Member and Inaugural Chair for PRIMaRE (the Partnership for Research In Marine Renewable Energy, ) and represents Marine Engineering in the Marine Institute. From 2000 until February 2008, she was a lecturer in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath and held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship for six years. Before that, she was a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UCL for five years after completing her DPhil at Oxford University, and prior to that she graduated in Civil Engineering from Bristol University and worked as a civil engineer for four years.
Her research interests include marine renewable energy, physical and numerical modelling of violent free surface flow and fluid-structure interaction. She is and has been involved with a number of research projects concerning marine renewable energy funded by EPSRC, GWR, EU Interreg, IEE, FP7, SWRDA, TSB in collaboration with industrial and academic partners. She recently coordinated a 2 million euro EU project SOWFIA, streamlining of offshore wave farms impact assessment, which brings together proposed wave energy test sites in the UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Portugal and Sweden. She is lead PI on EPSRC Research Grant EP/M022382/1: CCP-WSI, is Chair of the CCP-WSI and member of the CCP Steering Panel, EPSRC EP/J012866/1 (FROTH), EPSRC EP/K012177/1, The hydrodynamics of deformable flexible fabric structures for wave energy conversion, and partner on EP/J010235/1 (X-MED), on EU FP7 Project Marinet, on EU Horizon2020 Project WETFEET, and an associate Partner of UKCMER SuperGen Marine III. She has published over 125 peer-reviewed papers, has secured £3.9 million research income as PI, is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Member of RINA (Royal Institution of Naval Architects), a Fellow of the Leadership Foundation and of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the Engineering Committee of Ocean Resources ECOR Marine Renewables panel, a member of the Peer-review College of the EPSRC, a Member of the NERC Pool of Technologies Reviewers, a reviewer for several journals and was shortlisted for the 2014 WISE Research Award.
