Design and Analysis of Floating Wind Turbine Structures

Offshore wind development has witnessed a steady growth in the last decade. Floating wind turbines are a promising new technology in the field of offshore wind power development, particularly in deepwater. In recent years, significant R&D effort has been spent in conceiving floater designs that are stiff enough to accommodate wind turbines and stable enough to cope with the highly dynamic environments that prevail in deep seas. Concomitantly, great amount of time has also been invested in developing design tools to accurately model and predict the dynamics of coupling wind turbines to floating structures. The course will deal with various aspects for the design and analysis of floating wind turbines including foundation.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Engineers and researchers involved in the design of offshore floating wind turbines, Contracts engineers, Wind turbine Installation companies, Team leaders, Conversion Engineers, Project engineers and managers, offshore controls engineers, Safety inspectors will benefit from attending this course. The course is innovative in both content & structure with a careful balance of theory & practice.

COST

The registration fee of the workshop will be £695 Plus VAT (VAT UK only) which includes course notes.

PAYMENT

We will send you an invoice for the course fee after you have registered on the course. The payment can be made via bank transfer or online credit/debit card payment. If you need any further information, please contact us by email: info@mam.engineer 

PROGRAMME

LECTURER BIO

Dr. Debabrata Karmakar is presently working as an Associate Professor at Department of Water Resources and Ocean Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal. After receiving Ph.D. degree from the Department of Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. India, in 2009, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering (CENTEC), Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal in several research projects funded by Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology since 2010. He has also worked as an Assistant Professor at Indian Maritime University, Visakhapatnam, India. Until now, he has guided 7 PhD students and 35 M.Tech students, and published 80 papers in international peer reviewed journals, 118 papers in conference proceedings and 40 book chapter. In NITK, he has worked on research projects sponsored by Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, India-Portugal Bilateral Technological Cooperation and Ministry of Ports and Waterways. Dr. D. Karmakar has also worked as the technical committee member in International Ship and Offshore Structure Congress (ISSC) for the committee “V4. Offshore Renewable Energy” during 2012-2015 and 2015-2018, “V6. Ocean Space Utilization” during 2018-2022 and 2022-2025. His main scientific area of research is related to Marine Hydrodynamics, Hydroelasticity of Floating Structures and Offshore Renewable Energy.

Dr. Yang Yang obtained his PhD degree from University of Shanghai for Science & Technology (USST). His doctoral thesis is on' Seismic analysis of offshore wind turbines'. He is an outstanding student in his undergraduate class of USST where he did his bachelor's degree in Power Machinery and Engineering. He was a visiting scholar at the Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), UK where he was responsible for various projects namely

• Development of a fully coupled tool for a multi-body floating offshore wind turbines (FOWT),

• Development of FOWT controller considering the platform motion feedback;

• Identification of damage hotspots of the FOWT and

• Development of a damage diagnosis approach for the FOWT.

He is now an associate professor at the Ningbo University, China.