EAGRE

Predicting wave motion around moving or flexible structures is a difficult computational task. The difficulty arises from lack of sophisticated approximations used to track the a priori unknown nonlinear air-water and water-structure interfaces. Funded under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme, the EAGRE project will use Firedrake, a new tool developed by UK-based universities for automating finite-element simulations.

The focus of the study will be on developing new methods to analyse extreme or rogue waves in wave basins and wave-structure interactions on a dynamic wind-turbine mast. Realistically based challenges call for sound mathematical modelling, laboratory testing and cross-validation via computational simulation. Inextricably intertwined, these three approaches are considered the ‘research trinity’ for solving problems in maritime engineering.