Active Research Projects

 
Title
Investigators

Research fellows, Research assistants, Research students

Funder
Grant awarded to Plymouth
Innovative coastal technologies for safer European coasts in a changing climate (THESEUS)

Prof D Reeve
Dr R Thompson
Dr S Pan
Dr D Simmonds
Dr D Greaves
Mr A Fox

to be appointed EU FP7, 2009 – 2013

€492K

Wave energy converter & mooring/tether dynamics modelling

Dr D Greaves
Lisa Somner (Arup Ltd)
Dr C Williams (Bath University)

Alison O'Connor (RS) EPSRC and Arup Ltd £64k from EPSRC
£21k from Arup
Wave modelling for the Wave Hub (WM4WH) Peninsula Research Institute in Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMARE) Prof D Reeve
Dr D Simmons
Dr S Pan
Dr V Magar
Prof A Chadwick

Anna Zacharioudaki (RF)

SWRDA £387k

Coupled Dynamic Response of Wave Energy Converters and Mooring Systems

Dr Qingping Zou
Prof Dominic Reeve
Dr Deborah Greaves
Dr Alison Hunt
Dr Phil James
Dr David Graham
Prof  Andrew Chadwick
Dr Yali Zhang (RF) SWRDA £387k
Flooding Consortium Project 2 Prof D Reeve Dr J Horrillo-Caraballo (RF) EPSRC DEFRA EA ESRC Scottish Executive £245k

Ensemble Prediction of Inundation Risk and Uncertainty arising from Scour (EPIRUS)

Dr Qingping Zou
Prof Dominic Reeve
Prof Ian Cluckie
Dr. Dawei Han
Dr. Shunqi Pan

Dr Adrián Pedrozo-Acuña
Dr Xin Lv
Dr. Yongping Chen

NERC

£1,006,027 (total)
£677k (Plymouth)

OVI: Fundamentals of Overtopping from Violent water wave Impacts

Dr Alison Hunt,
Prof Geoff Bullock,
Prof Howell Peregrine (Bristol University)

Dr Ravindra Jayaratne
Dr Henrik Bredmose (Bristol University)
EPSRC £171k
OST Research Fellowhip Prof A Chadwick
Prof D Reeve
Dr Vanesa Magar   £125k
Extreme wave loading on offshore wave energy devices using CFD: A hierarchical team approach Dr D Greaves Jan Westphalen (RS) EPSRC £89k
Modelling Waves, Currents and Sediment Mobility on Sable Island

Dr Qingping Zou
Dr. Michael Z. Li (BIO/GSC)
Mr. Robert Prescott (BIO/GSC)
Dr. Will Perrie (BIO)
Mr. Bash Toulany (BIO)

NA Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) $20k Canadian dollars
Survivability and Tuning of the SPERBOY Wave Energy Converter

Dr Deborah Greaves
Dr Alison Hunt-Raby
Dr Jun Zang (University of Bath)

Tracy Somerville (RS) GWR/Embley Energy £55.2k