Focus Group Workshop 3

 Friday 4th September 2020

10:00 am

 Zoom (online)

Presentations

Recordings from the workshop are now available on our YouTube Channel, or scroll down to the agenda for links to individual presentations.

Description and Aim

The third CCP-WSI Focus Group Workshop marks the start of a new era for the CCP-WSI – CCP-WSI+. The scope of the CCP-WSI has been expanded to cover, and combine, state-of-the-art practices from both the computational fluid mechanics and computational structural mechanics communities. To kick-off this more holistic approach to Wave-Structure-Interaction (WSI) modelling, the CCP-WSI Focus Group Workshop 3 sets the scene for the CCP-WSI+ and focuses on the core theme of multi-physics coupling in WSI. The Workshop provides an industry context to these challenges and a forum for WSI discussions that are relevant to a broad range of applications that include fluid-structure-interaction challenges (with a specific focus on free-surface flows, i.e. ‘waves’). The Workshop will bring together CCP-WSI project partners with representatives from the wider WSI Community to develop a priority list of WSI challenges and inform future targeted focus group meetings. The ultimate goal is to develop a roadmap for CCP-WSI activities and inform future funding calls.

Objectives

  • Introduce and kick-off the new CCP-WSI+
  • Develop WSI Computation and Experiment Roadmap
  • Identify WSI challenges in the context of multi-physics coupling, i.e. combined hydrodynamics and structural mechanics
  • Identify themes for CCP-WSI Workshop Series Design
  • Form consortia for Research Project Proposal Development

Research Challenge Prioritisation (Well Sorted study)

As part of the preparation for the CCP-WSI Focus Group Workshop 3, a study has been generated to establish a priority list of ‘Research Challenges in the Computational Modelling of Wave-Structure-Interaction’ using the online platform Well Sorted. With your help we hope to use this study for targeted discussions at the Workshop and future road-mapping exercises. If you could spare a couple of minutes to add two priority research challenges into the online form here we would greatly appreciate your input into this prioritisation activity.

Agenda

10:00 – 10:30 Introduction to CCP-WSI+ Prof. Deborah Greaves (UoP)
10:30 – 10:40 COSEC support for the CCP-WSI+ Dr Stephen Longshaw (STFC)
10:40 – 11:00 Short break  
11:00 – 11:40 The CCP-WSI+ Working Group  
11:00 – 11:05 Some of the Wave Structure Interaction (WSI) Research at The University of Plymouth Dr Edward Ransley (UoP)
11:05 – 11:10 Development and applications of qaleFOAM – hybrid model coupling QALE-FEM and OpenFOAM Dr Shiqiang Yan (City)
11:10 – 11:15 CFD Modelling of Wave Structure Interactions Prof. Ling Qian (MMU)
11:15 – 11:20 CFD Research Prof. Gavin Tabor (UoE)
11:20 – 11:25 Recent Advances in Wave-Structure Interactions at the University of Bath Dr Jun Zang (UoB)
11:25 – 11:30 Recent innovations in computational solid mechanics within a fluid structure interaction framework Dr Lee Margetts (UoM)
11:30 – 11:35 Discrete Element Modelling: Introduction and Opportunities for Wave Structure Interaction Dr Tom Shire (UoG)
11:35 – 11:40 Cyclic Behaviour of Offshore Structures under Extreme Environmental Conditions Dr Mohamed Rouainia (UoN
11:40 – 13:30 LUNCH BREAK  
13:30 – 13:45 Hydro-Structural Analysis of Wave Energy Converters Ronan Costello (Wave Venture)
13:45 – 14:00 Wave Structure Interaction Challenges: Floating Wind Francesc Fabregas (DNV GL)
14:00 – 14:15 ‘Coupled models – Challenges and a successful example’ Aggelos Dimakopoulos (HR Wallingford)
14:15 – 14:30 Scour Considerations for Floating Wind Howard Curtis (Ryder Geotechnical)
14:30 – 14:45 Short break  
14:45 – 15:45 Research Challenge Prioritisation (break-out session)  
15:45 – 16:15 Feedback from break-out session  
16:15 – 16:30 Event Close Prof. Deborah Greaves (UoP)