🌊 Exciting News: We’re Attending the Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub Annual Assembly! 🌊 We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll participate in the upcoming Supergen ORE Hub Annual Assembly, a premier event in the…
At the 2023 Supergen Annual Assembly in Southhampton, Professor Xiao presented and introduced the project team and their goals and progress. Additionally, a poster was displayed showcasing the experimental setup for the bulge test and…
Large-Scale OWC Testing: Analyzing Membrane Deformation As part of the BASM-WEC project, we are excited to share the results of our first experiment conducted at the Kelvin Hydrodynamics Lab’s large water tank. Our team installed…
Small-Scale OWC Experimentation This test was performed for some goals such as: The following figure shows the OWC device (with 20 cm diameter and 1 m height) set up in the small water tank. Due…
Designing a New Test Rig: Due to some limitations in the water tank tests (especially the amount of pressure), we decided to design and build a new test rig for purposes such as: The assessment…
Regarding the structural integrity part of this project, we focused on two parts as follows: 1. Finite Element Analysis: Doing numerical analysis to increase the structure’s durability is one of the vital keys in this…
The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub vision is to bring together and stimulate synergistic adventurous research that supports and accelerates the development of offshore wind, wave and tidal technologies for society’s benefit. This assembly…
The FlexWave Oxford Meeting was held by Oxford University from 15th to 16th March 2022 and aimed to gather different projects teams, researchers, and companies working and focusing on flexible wave energy converter (WEC) projects…
Professor Xiao presented at Supergen Annual Assembly 2022 and introduced team members and project goals. This programme was set up by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to deliver sustained and coordinated research…
