The proposed series of lectures builds on different numerical modeling approaches to cope with ocean offshore structures to elevate the participants’ knowledge on state-of-the-art design procedures and make efficient use of high-fidelity software. Such goals are achieved through both frontal lectures and active hands-on sessions, where the participants are invited to actively engineer and test a specific structure of choice to suit their background and learning expectations

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Guest Lecture: Bonaventura Tagliafierro Uppsala University Post-Doc Research Fellow UPPSALA UNIVERSITY, Sweden (Aug 2024 – Present) Leading IM-POWER project: developing a numerical model for offshore wind farms during sea storms. Visiting Scholar Queen’s University Belfast, UK (Nov 2022 – Present) Investigating the dynamics of floating wind platforms under extreme weather conditions. Partner EPhysLab, UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO, Spain (Jan 2019 – Present) Developing SPH frameworks for renewable energy, focusing on wave energy converters and offshore wind turbines. The proposed series of lectures builds on different numerical modeling approaches to cope with ocean offshore structures to elevate the participants’ knowledge on state-of-the-art design procedures and make efficient use of high-fidelity software. Such goals are achieved through both frontal lectures and active hands-on sessions, where the participants are invited to actively engineer and test a specific structure of choice to suit their background and learning expectations. During the first part of this event, the participants will be introduced and prepared to assess the overall general issues that connects offshore energy production, such as from wind or wave, and the power grid. This is followed up by an in-depth discussion on the ocean environmental characterization that will define power, stability, or survivability performance respectively for wave energy converters, offshore wind turbines, and coastal infrastructure. Similarly, the hand-on activity will be presented, setting the individually targeted structure for each participant or sub-group. In fact, collaborative activities will be encouraged by forming heterogeneous teams. By the end of the first day, in addition, the participants will be provided with time series data, generated by the organizers with high-fidelity model techniques, for the design configuration they would be working for the remainder of the event. On day two, the participants will brainstorm on the various design procedures they would like to adopt to accomplish the structural optimization that will strongly depend on the team’s choice. Data reanalysis will be also promoted among the participants with direct feedback from the teachers. Consequently, the CFD based DualSPHysics, for which the proponent is an active developer, is introduced along with its supporting numerical theory and numerous applications will showcase its suitability to addressing offshore engineering problems. By the end of the second day, a clear picture of how to tackle and dimension a preliminary pool of concept layouts would form. On days three and four, numerical modeling strategies from low- to high-fidelity, as presently used by industry, is supplied. Ensuing, the participants are invited to attempt primary performance estimations based on low-fidelity approaches. At the end, the final, refined design will be then sent to “production” and used by the organizers to numerically carry out simulations and their output, in the form of mooring tension and hydrodynamic loads, are then delivered to the participants for their final structural verification. The event is concluded by project presentations by all groups, after which a general session will be called with concluding brainstorming and discussion on possible strategies for better design convergence.

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P.D.2-2 - Maggio

26–29 Maggio