School of Water, Energy and Environment
Energy and Power Theme
Offshore Renewable Energy Engineering Centre
Research Fellow in Dynamics of Offshore Wind Turbines
Fixed Term contract until 1 April 2020
£31,620 per annum
Location: Cranfield, Bedfordshire
Cranfield is an exclusively postgraduate university that is a global leader for education and transformational research in technology and management.
The School of Water, Energy and Environment (SWEE) leads in delivering Cranfield’s Mission for the themes of Water, Energy and Power and Environment and Agrifood. The School is committed to leading in its areas of expertise through investing in world class staff and facilities over the long term.
Cranfield’s expertise in energy and power covers a range of the potential energy solutions, from our ongoing relationship with oil and gas, to our developing reliance on renewable energy from the world around us. The changing energy landscape presents exciting opportunities and the potential for the UK to lead in new technologies and services related to low carbon energy and power generation.
We inform the energy and power industry and government because our expertise is world-renowned for both the engineering and management of energy solutions. Our research is making a difference in the sector: from increasingly efficient oil platforms to the cutting edge of renewable energy technologies.
We are currently recruiting a Research Fellow to work on a project that brings together cutting edge offshore renewable energy researchers who will work across discipline boundaries to lower risks and costs of offshore wind farm maintenance. Within this project, the role of Cranfield University (and therefore the Research Fellow) is to mainly focus on the development of an aerodynamic-hydrodynamic-servo-elastic coupled model of dynamics of a representative wind farm, to be coupled with a thermo-electro-mechanical-magnetic model of dynamics to be developed by another group, in order to have an improved model to study the operation and deterioration of the wind farm.
This project will improve the quantity and quality of actionable data for wind farm operation and maintenance. It will do this through improved models of the operation and deterioration of the wind farm, through improved (higher quality and more targeted) sensing and condition monitoring, through better schemes for data analysis and through a better understanding of the use of flexible sensing platforms (robots). This will give the operator a better set of decision support tools. To ensure the improved information this provides is actionable, strong stakeholder engagement will be undertaken from the outset.
You will be educated to doctoral level in a subject area related to mechanical / naval / offshore / offshore renewable engineering, focused on modelling and analysis of dynamic systems, or related discipline, or the equivalent in professional qualifications and experience, and will have extensive experience of modelling and analysis of dynamic systems. Experience of modelling and analysis of offshore renewable energy systems would be an advantage. Communication skills, particularly a demonstrated ability to publish in high-quality journals and conferences is essential in addition to excellent presentation skills. An ability to conduct research within a multidisciplinary and multicultural team is essential as is a positive attitude to internal and external collaborations. Due to the requirement to travel nationally, and internationally for conferences, client meetings etc. you should have no travel restrictions.
For an informal discussion, please contact Dr Maurizio Collu, Senior Lecturer in Dynamics of Offshore Structures, on +44 (0)1234 75 4779 or (E);
[email protected] Apply online now at
www.cranfield.ac.uk/hr or contact us for further details on E:
[email protected] or T: +44 (0)1234 750111 Ext. 2345. For any enquiries, please quote reference number 2419.
Closing date for receipt of applications: 26 March 2017
Interviews to be held: 4 April 2017
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