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The company, based in South East England, is an established independent consultancy with an international client base. It offers extensive expertise and technology to improve performance and efficiency for offshore wind, ocean wave and tidal energy. They specialise in marine engineering, more specifically CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) technology support and design optimisation to renewable energy companies.

Simulations can be applied to any type of offshore platform, including different types of mooring systems, for offshore wind, ocean waves and tidal energy. CFD expertise will make a difference to investigating high fatigue load, noise emissions or meeting stringent reliability and safety standards. The company’s experience with free surface for floating bodies under the effect of the external forces of wind, current and waves can be applied to any type of vessel and offshore floating platform in greater depths. Flow visualisation and animation gain insight and understanding about differences between designs.

The company has a commitment to improving the efficiency of renewable energies and is looking to collaborate with interested partners under an outsourcing agreement. It is offers CFD technical support to design projects to improve performance and efficiency for offshore wind, ocean waves and tidal energy.

Advantages & innovations

CFD can support design projects to: * Improve rotor blade performance including section profile * Motions and extreme loads of offshore floating platforms * Investigate mooring systems * Investigate wave energy structures / tidal turbine structures * Reduce noise emissions and vibrations * Reduce high fatigue load * Meet stringent safety standards * High fidelity, CFD-based wind and tidal forecast embedded in global models Areas where CFD can help: * Motion of structural bodies in winds, current and waves and load analysis * Flow analysis of underwater turbines including cavitation * Investigation of loading on turbine blades for either Vertical or Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine * Optimisation of blade profile * Interaction between components such as tower and rotor * Tower shadow effects in wind farms to investigate fatigue load and power reduction * Blade flutter through Fluid-Structure-Interaction (FSI)

Stage of development

Already on the market

Partner sought

The company is looking for either an outsourcing agreement or to collaborate with renewable energy companies, regional or global R&D efforts across Europe to support offshore wind, ocean waves and tidal energy structure design projects to improve efficiency and increase performance.