Floating Offshore Wind Dynamic Cables
The Irish doctorate network on dynamic cables.
The project
Dynamic Cables are one of the key elements that allows offshore wind power back to land. It is also one of the most vulnerable elements, leading to more frequent failures with large consequences around power generation and uncertainty around them. However, addressing the consistency of dynamic cables is difficult due to the fundamental complexity of these cables in terms of their modelling, lack of evidence base in terms of their testing and monitoring, and finally the gap between understanding them and having adequate tools to absorb them into industrial practice. FlowDyn addresses some of these core problems by developing bespoke understanding around nonlinearities (static and dynamic), response conditions and failures. FlowDyn creates a first and comprehensive benchmark in an open and transparent manner allowing addressing of lifetime performance requirements and related designs.
It creates a scientific insight to the ongoing processes linking nonlinearities and stochasticity and links them to practice in terms of design, guidelines and recommendations. It also provides bespoke and sophisticated tools for analysing these scenarios of performance, while allowing for probabilistic assessments. FlowDyn will create authoritative benchmark through extensive numerical and experimental evidence bases, and performance metrics. It will develop effective measurement and instrumentation chain and create guidance and protocols around testing and monitoring under various circumstances. FlowDyn will be transformative in terms of how design, operation, maintenance and monitoring are carried out. It will establish rigorous analysis at the core of renewable energy policy and provide Irish thought leadership globally in this niche and strongly bourgeoning sector.
Six Doctorate candidates will be trained in topics of relevance to address the challenges of dynamic cables and will collaborate to deliver the solutions needed to achieve the future targets for the sector.
FLOWDyn Research Team:
Experts Leading the FLOWDyn:
Project Coordinator and UCD Principal Investigator (PI):
- Dr. (opens in a new window)Vikram Pakrashi, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, UCD
Co-Investigators:
- Dr. (opens in a new window)Cardiff (UCD): rope projects, expert in finite volume methods.
- Dr. (opens in a new window)Ivankovic (UCD): continuum mechanics, fracture mechanics.
- Dr. (opens in a new window)Rounak (UCD): Nonlinear dynamics specialist.
- Dr. (opens in a new window)Celikin (UCD): material testing and fatigue.
- Dr. (opens in a new window)Nolan (UCD): fluid mechanics experiments and simulations.
- Dr. (opens in a new window)Keenahan (UCD): computational fluid dynamics for large infrastructure.
- Dr. (opens in a new window)Malekjafarian (UCD): monitoring and machine learning.
- Dr. (opens in a new window)Teixeira (UCD): reliability theory and probabilistic analyses.
- Dr. (opens in a new window)Salauddin (UCD): experimental wave modelling.
- Dr. (opens in a new window)van Beek (UCD): Experimental designs and reduced order models.
- Dr. (opens in a new window)Celikin (UCD): Analsys and simulation of structural fatigue.
- Dr. (opens in a new window)Murphy (UCC): hydrodynamic modelling and field studies in both offshore and coastal environments
- Dr. (opens in a new window)Jaksic (MTU): turbine modelling and composite material testing.
Together, this distinguished team brings unparalleled expertise and experience to the FlowDyn project, ensuring excellence in research and significant contributions to the field of renewable energy.