Offshore Renewable Energy: wind, tidal or wave

在工业实践中，有各种各样的工具来分析潮汐涡轮机的性能，然而，还没有开发出从低保真工具到高保真工具的定义明确的设计过程，最终结果是获得对涡轮机设计的简明分析。此外，对潮汐水轮机的流固耦合、结构对水轮机动态负荷性能的影响以及对水轮机设计至关重要的DEL分析进行了有限的研究。研究提出了一个折衷使用低保真、中保真和高保真数值解求解器的三阶段计划，以弥补具有明确设计过程的行业空白，并利用中保真和高保真工具来研究潮汐水轮机的流固耦合。该项目还将有助于增加关于潮汐能部门目前使用的标准和准则的知识。

Within industrial practice, various tools exist to analyse tidal turbine performance, however, there is yet to be developed a well-defined design process ranging from low to high fidelity tools with the end result of obtaining a concise analysis of the turbine design. Additionally, there is limited amount of research that has been conducted on FSI of tidal turbines; how the structure impacts the performance of the turbine dynamic loading; and on DEL analysis that is crucial in the design of the turbine.The research proposes a three-stage plan compromising of the use of low fidelity, mid-fidelity, and high-fidelity numerical solution solvers, to tackle the industrial gap of having a well-defined design process, and utilizing the mid-fidelity and high-fidelity tools to study on FSI of tidal turbines. The project will also contribute to the addition of knowledge on the standards and guidelines currently being used for the tidal energy sector.