Our research disciplines include:
- Marine renewable energy
- Coastal structures
- Ocean engineering
- Coastal and estuarine processes
- Flood risk and coastal protection
- Hydrodynamics
- Sediment dynamics
- Morphodynamics
- Port engineering
- Artificial Intelligence applied to coastal engineering.
Active projects
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The Intelligent Community Energy Project (ICE)
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Addition of a wind generator to the COAST Laboratory for the experimental testing of floating wind turbines
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MaRINET 2
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ORE Supergen Hub
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Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics model for wave energy converters in survival conditions
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A non-linear numerical wave model to investigate the dynamic behaviour of a large diameter monopile-based offshore wind turbine (OWT) within the Caribbean Sea environment
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Structural performance of floating marine energy devices
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Compound flooding from tropical cyclone-induced sea surge and precipitation in Sri Lanka (C-FLOOD)
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Collaborative Computational Project in wave Structure Interaction (CCP-WSI)
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Marine-i
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PORTOS – Ports towards energy self-sufficiency
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TIGER (Tidal Stream Industry Energiser)
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Extreme Loading on Floating Offshore Wind Turbine under Complex Environmental Conditions
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Cornwall Floating Offshore Wind Accelerator
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FlexWave
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Hydrogen supporting ORE Integration (New)
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Highly efficient innovative shallow-water based Sea Water Air Conditioning solution for the Channel Area
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SENSUM
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Learning from Earthquakes
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High efficiency reversible solid oxide cells for the integration of offshore renewable energy using hydrogen
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Cryogenic Sloshing in Aircraft fuel tanks
Completed projects
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ENFORCE: Extreme Responses using NewWave – Forces, Overtopping and Runup in Coastal Engineering
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Physical modelling of a wave energy converter in collaboration with Sea Energy Associates Ltd.
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Innovative Technologies for Safer European Coasts in a Changing Climate
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Waves, currents and sediment transport modelling at the Wave Hub site
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X-MED: Extreme Loading of Marine Energy Devices due to Waves, Currents, Flotsam and Mammal Impact
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FROTH - Fundamentals and Reliability of Offshore Structure Hydrodynamics
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The hydrodynamics of deformable flexible fabric structures for wave energy conversion
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SOWFIA project
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Impact of marine energy converters
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A three-dimensional flow model for different cross-section high velocity channels
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Survivability of Wave Energy Converter and Mooring coupled system
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Modelling and control of an oscillating water column wave energy converter
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The wave energy shadow cast by an offshore wave energy converter array
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Wave impact on rock lighthouses
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Assessment of Fluid-Structure Interaction for Marine Renewable Energy Device Using CFD
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Hydrodynamics and Optimisation of a Wave Power Device
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An evaluation of a new hybrid wave and wind energy converter
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Integrated numerical Modelling system for Marine Renewable Energy
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Improving the representation of the fragility of coastal structures
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MTG Tidal Raft Platform Concept (MTG1)
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MTG Platform Concept 2 (MTG2)
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Wave Farm Impacts and Design (WAVEIMPACT)
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H2020 WETFEET WP6 – Array Breakthroughs – Investigation of compact WEC arrays through laboratory tests and numerical modelling
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L&R – A zonal CFD approach for fully nonlinear simulations of two vessels in Launch and Recovery operations
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STORMLAMP - Structural behaviour Of Rock Mounted Lighthouses At the Mercy of imPulsive waves
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MaRINET 2
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Marine-i
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Addition of a wind generator to the COAST Laboratory for the experimental testing of floating wind turbines
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Compound flooding from tropical cyclone-induced sea surge and precipitation in Sri Lanka (C-FLOOD)
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Extreme Responses in Coastal Engineering using NewWave on Steep Structures