Heat Transfer in Ocean Environments

这一多学科的研究项目旨在研究水波对海洋中热传递现象的影响。这在层流边界层稳定性、近海可再生能源(ORE)装置的生物污垢、卫星数据校准和珊瑚漂白等领域有许多应用。虽然波浪在海洋流体力学中起着重要作用，但很少有人研究它们对热传递过程的影响。该项目旨在通过开发和应用海洋热传输的分析和数值方法来填补这一空白。该项目涉及开发创新的数学模型，以描述在海浪作用下海洋环境中的温度扩散。由此产生的模型将被用于研究在现实海洋条件下整体温度是如何传播的。这将导致对与复杂海洋环境相关的热/波动力学的综合看法，无论是否存在矿石设备。虽然矿石设备的生物污垢分析是本专业的核心，但对水波热传输的更好理解将具有多学科范围的应用。这些包括珊瑚礁和珊瑚漂白的生态，藻类水华的演变，来自水下数据中心等热源的温度传播，以及用于水下测量的卫星数据的校准，所有这些都是严重的全球挑战。为了增加拟议研究的影响，监督小组将与美国国家海洋和大气管理局的专家以及EUROSWAC项目中的工业合作伙伴密切合作。

This multidisciplinary research project aims to investigate the effect of water waves on heat transfer phenomena in the ocean. This has many applications in areas including laminar boundary layer stability, biofouling of Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) devices, calibration of satellite data, and coral bleaching. Although waves play a major role in ocean hydrodynamics, very few studies have investigated their effect on heat transfer processes. This project aims to fill this gap by developing and applying analytical and numerical methods for ocean heat transfer.The project involves development of innovative mathematical models to describe the diffusion of temperature in marine environments under the action of waves. The resulting models will be used to investigate how bulk temperature propagates under realistic ocean conditions. This will lead to an integrated view of the heat/wave dynamics related to complex marine environments, with and without ORE devices present.While biofouling analysis of ORE devices lies at the heart of this studentship, the improved understanding of heat transfer by water waves will have a multidisciplinary range of applications. These include the ecology of coral reefs and coral bleaching, the evolution of algal blooms, the spreading of temperature from heat sources such as underwater datacentres, and the calibration of satellite data for underwater measurements, all of which present serious global challenges.In order to increase the impact of the proposed research, the supervisory team will be working closely with experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and industrial partners within the EUROSWAC project.