Heat Transfer in Ocean Environments

这个多学科研究项目旨在研究水波对海洋传热现象的影响。这在许多领域都有应用，包括层流边界层稳定性、海上可再生能源（ORE）设备的生物污垢、卫星数据校准和珊瑚漂白。虽然波浪在海洋流体动力学中起着重要的作用，但很少有研究研究它们对传热过程的影响。本项目旨在通过开发和应用海洋传热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，以描述波浪作用下海洋环境中温度的扩散。由此产生的模型将用于研究实际海洋条件下体温如何传播。这将导致与复杂海洋环境相关的热/波动力学的综合视图，无论是否存在ORE设备。虽然ORE设备的生物污垢分析是本研究的核心，但对水波传热的更好理解将具有多学科范围的应用。这些挑战包括珊瑚礁的生态和珊瑚白化、藻华的演变、水下数据中心等热源的温度扩散以及水下测量卫星数据的校准，所有这些都构成了严重的全球挑战。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.