The main objective of this subject is getting familiar with Open-Source CFD software. The expected outcomes for the students are:
(1) Experience with Linux OS and its command line environment, and
(2) Ability to solve practical problems using OpenFOAM and other open-source tools.
Guest Lecturer presentation on the topic of "Numerical Wave Tank testing for Wave Energy Converters". This lecture provides a general background on wave energy conversion and then introduces the role of numerical wave tanks in wave energy converter development. Details of the numerical wave tank implementation are then presented, followed by a number of examples of the types of wave energy experiments typically performed in a numerical tank.
One section of this subject on the topic of "Utilization of Marine Renewable Energy". The objectives of this course are:
(1) To provide students with an overview of the energetics aspects and applications of marine renewable energy, and
(2) the building service engineering aspects and applications of MRE (e.g. possible ways of supplying residential buildings with renewable energy).
Part 1 of this course covers aspects of marine renewable energy such as the different resources and their advantanges/disadvantages.
Part 2 of this course then details the applications of marine renewable energy, covering areas such as energy, water and air conditioning.
This course is delivered to the Master in Renewable Energy in the Marine Environment at the University of the Basque Country. The objective of the course is to teach students about the development and optimisation of marine renewable energy devices at low to mid Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) using computational models. Demonstrating the advantages of early-stage numerical wave tank experimentation to increase the Technology Performance Level (TPL) of devices before investing in expensive physical prototyping, tank and ocean testing, and then later-stage numerical wave tank simulations to supplement the physical testing campaigns.