Supergen Marine - Core

英国工程与物理科学委员会（EPSRC）资助的研究联盟，Supergen Marine(1)，包括爱丁堡大学；赫瑞瓦特大学;兰开斯特大学；自2003年10月以来，斯特拉斯克莱德大学和罗伯特戈登大学一直在进行前沿研究，以支持发展中的海洋可再生能源产业。该财团已被修改为包括贝尔法斯特女王大学和罗伯特戈登大学海洋能源小组的主要成员转移到爱丁堡大学，现在正在争取研究委员会的继续支持。最初的Supergen海洋研究方案的目的主要是加强对海洋能源的位置、范围和特征的了解。这是在3-10年的范围内，并且仍然有效。然而，研究重点已经发展到认识到早期试验、原型装置的部署和最初工作方案的结果所产生的经验和问题。总体目标虽然仍然是一般的，但已经发展，并且在修订后的研究方案中，现在的方向是增加对能量转换器的装置-海洋相互作用的理解，从实验室的模型尺寸到公海的全尺寸。该方案包括以下工作：设备阵列及其将如何影响当地和区域环境条件；激进的设计方法，考虑到设计指导的新理念；确保数字和物理设计支持的一致性和健壮性；在混合潮汐和波浪环境中设计所带来的挑战；复杂非线性和演化环境下的系统控制海洋系统的固定、系泊和回收所带来的复杂挑战；海洋资源的变化性和间断性所带来的经济挑战；可用于预测和评估海洋能源系统长期可靠性的稀疏信息，以及如何在利益相关者群体中最好地传播对所有这些问题的进一步了解。

The UK Engineering and Physical Science Council (EPSRC) funded research consortium, Supergen Marine (1), which consisted of the University of Edinburgh; Heriot-Watt University; The University of Lancaster; The University of Strathclyde and the Robert Gordon University, has, since October 2003, been undertaking cutting edge research in support of the developing marine renewables industry. The consortium, which has been modified to include The Queen's University Belfast and the move of key members of the Robert Gordon University Marine Energy Group to the University of Edinburgh, is now bidding for continued support from the research council. The aims of the original Supergen marine research programme primarily related to enhancing understanding of the location, extent and characteristics of the marine energy resources. This was on a 3-10 year horizon, and is still valid. However, research priorities have evolved to recognise experiences and questions arising from early tests, the deployment of prototype devices and the outcomes of the original work programme. The overall aim, while still generic, has evolved and is now directed, in the revised research programme, towards increasing understanding of the device-sea interactions of energy converters from model-scale in the laboratory to full size in the open sea. The programme includes work on: device arrays and how these will influence local and regional environmental conditions; radical design approaches, which take into account new philosophies of design guidance; ensuring that numerical and physical design support is consistent and robust; the challenges posed by design in mixed tidal and wave environments; system control in complex non linear and evolving environments; the complex challenges posed by fixing, mooring and recovery of marine systems; the economic challenges posed by the variable and intermittent nature of the marine resource; the sparse information available to predict and assess the long term reliability of marine energy systems and how an increased understanding of all of these issues can be best disseminated within the stakeholder community.