Characterisation of the in-rotor hydrodynamics of cross-flow turbines.

Wave energy conversion system array optimization, hybrid energy systems, and development and application of computational design tools for renewable energy systems and sustainable product design.

Dr. Simpson uses advanced computational and experimental methods to characterize structural response.

Design, numerical modeling, control and scaled physical testing of ocean wave energy converters; facilitating open-source sharing of data related to marine renewable energy.

PacWave Marine Operations

Power & Data Systems Engineer at PacWave

Vulnerability of electrical infrastructure, in particular, cascading outage analysis and mitigation. Real-time power system protection, cybersecurity.

Planning, decision making, and learning for autonomous underwater robotic systems for the inspection of marine renewable energy systems and monitoring of oceanographic phenomena.

Systems engineering, model-based system design, mathematical framework development, and reliability based design.

Integrated instrumentation development for environmental monitoring and hydrodynamic analysis of instrumentation systems and marine roboitcs.

Field measurements of waves, currents, and turbulence

Active blade pitch control for axial-flow marine turbines

Granular mechanics, image analysis, numerical methods, and unsaturated soil mechanics, with applications to renewable energy, multiphysics problems, waste isolation, and sustainable infrastructure.

Nearshore effects of wave energy converter (WEC) arrays, short-term wave-by-wave forecasting through data assimilation for WEC control applications, wave mechanics, and remote sensing of wave transformation processes.

Structural design and fluid-structure interactions of marine renewable energy devices

Mohammad Malakooti researches at the intersection of solid mechanics, nanotechnology, materials science and manufacturing

Dr. Williams studies the effects of non-uniform fluid properties (such as density or viscosity) on turbulence and the resulting impact on real world vehicles and devices.

Duvoy’s work focuses on the numerical and analytical modeling for hydrokinetic resources assessment and debris mitigation, field measurements and data analysis.

Physical and numerical modeling of wave generation and propagation, wave-structure interaction, stability of coastal and submarine structures, behavior of floating structures, hydrodynamics, and non-linear behavior of long-waves in shallow waters.

Design and performance characterization of turbine & WEC PTOs, field-scale demonstration systems, benchtop hardware-in-the-loop testbeds

Control and modeling of renewable energy systems for maximizing power production and reducing system stress; predictive control models, wave power grid integration effects, and power take off modeling and development for wave energy conversion systems.

Numerical and experimental simulation of wave energy device dynamics in the marine environment, large-scale wave basin modeling, testing, and wave environment characterization and simulation.

Numerical Optimization and Physical modelling of WEC's. Development of micro-WECs for distributed and persistent marine power.

Toby Harbison is a Marine Resource Management (MRM) master's student in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science. She studies how discarded bait from the commercial Dungeness crab fishery impacts seasonal variation in the trophic structure of benthic food webs on the Oregon coast. Before coming to OSU, she worked as a professional science communicator with private companies, government agencies, and non-profit organizations to foster stewardship for the natural world through citizen science, environmental education, and wilderness tourism in regions across the western United States, including Southeast Alaska and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. She joined the MRM program to deepen her understanding of how spatial-temporal analysis can improve fisheries management with the goal of facilitating the integration of geospatial technologies into small-scale fisheries in the developing world.

Forecast-based control of marine-powered systems

Novel instrumentation for site characterization

Numerical, field and analytical investigations of water motions in the nearshore zone, defined by water depth at the order of 10 m or less.

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