High-fidelity CFD model for floating offshore wind turbines
Multi-region overset mesh solver for floating offshore renewable energy devices
Computational tools
The digital porous media technology research team has established a series of tools which have been applied in variety of materials including reservoir rocks and soils:
- 3D Porous Architecture Model. This is a powerful tool to build 3-dimentainal heterogeneous porous media model using 2D images. This tool has opened new field to efficiently quantify the multiphase flow in complicated porous media from nano scale to filed scales.
- Integration of multiscale heterogeneous pore structure information. This tool using SEM, FIB and micro-CT images, to integrate multiscale rock and soil structure and utilising multiscale pore network models to predict multi-scale flow functions from core scale to higher scale.
- Incorporation of fracture and matrix into network models. A new fracture matrix pore network model (FM-PNM) is developed to efficiently simulate the fluid flow properties in fractured porous media.
The group has developed a number of Computation Fluid Dynamics to support research in coastal and renewable energy hydraulics