The Centre for Ocean Energy Researcher hosted the 1st CFD for Ocean Energy Workshop on the 23rd of January 2013, at Maynooth University. The workshop consisted of a day of seminars to help to bring a group of like-minded researchers together to share knowledge, focusing on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and its application in wave energy research.

 

 

Programme

10:30 – 11:00              Meet at the John Hume building NUIM 

11:00 – 11:15              Welcome / Introduction

11:15 – 11:45              Josh Davidson – NUIM – Numerical Tank Testing in CFD [pdf]

11:45 – 12:00              Frederic Dias – UCD – Overview of CFD in wave energy at UCD

12:00 – 12:30              Ashkan Rafiee – UCD - Numerical simulation of an oscillating wave surge converter

12:30 – 13:00              Peter Arnold – Wavebob – Validation of Flow-3d code against tank tests data for the Wavebob [pdf]

13:00 – 14:30              Lunch 

14:30 – 15:00              Pal Schmidt – QUB – OysterFOAM: The use of OpenFOAM in the numerical research of the Oyster WEC [pdf]

15:00 – 15:30              William Finnegan – NUIG – CFD use in Marine Renewable Energy at NUIG

15:30 – 16:00              Roxana Tiron – UCD – Nearshore wave climate

16:00 – 16:30              Matthew Shanley – HMRC – CFD Analysis of a Novel Hull Design for an Offshore Wind Farm Service Vessel [pdf]

16:30 – 17:00              Open discussion to conclude the day

 

 

Organiser: Dr. Josh Davidson (josh.davidson@mu.ie).