CCP-WSI+ Collaborative Computational Project on Wave Structure Interaction +
Lead Research Organisation:
Plymouth University
Department Name: Sch of Engineering
Abstract
The proposed new CCP-WSI+ builds on the impact generated by the Collaborative Computational Project in Wave Structure Interaction (CCP-WSI) and extends it to connect together previously separate communities in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and computational structural mechanics (CSM). The new CCP-WSI+ collaboration builds on the NWT, will accelerate the development of Fully Coupled Wave Structure Interaction (FCWSI) modelling suitable for dealing with the latest challenges in offshore and coastal engineering.
Since being established in 2015, CCP-WSI has provided strategic leadership for the WSI community, and has been successful in generating impact in: Strategy setting, Contributions to knowledge, and Strategic software development and support. The existing CCP-WSI network has identified priorities for WSI code development through industry focus group workshops; it has advanced understanding of the applicability and reliability of WSI through an internationally recognised Blind Test series; and supported collaborative code development.
Acceleration of the offshore renewable energy sector and protection of coastal communities are strategic priorities for the UK and involve complex WSI challenges. Designers need computational tools that can deal with complex environmental load conditions and complex structures with confidence in their reliability and appropriate use. Computational tools are essential for design and assessment within these priority areas and there is a need for continued support of their development, appropriate utilisation and implementation to take advantage of recent advances in HPC architecture.
Both the CFD and CSM communities have similar challenges in needing computationally efficient code development suitable for simulations of design cases of greater and greater complexity and scale. Many different codes are available commercially and are developed in academia, but there remains considerable uncertainty in the reliability of their use in different applications and of independent qualitative measures of the quality of a simulation.
One of the novelties of this CCP is that in addition to considering the interface between fluids and structures from a computational perspective, we propose to bring together the two UK expert communities who are leading developments in those respective fields. The motivation is to develop FCWSI software, which couples the best in class CFD tools with the most recent innovations in computational solid mechanics. Due to the complexity of both fields, this would not be achievable without interdisciplinary collaboration and co-design of FCWSI software.
The CCP-WSI+ will bring the CFD and CSM communities together through a series of networking events and industry workshops designed to share good practice and exchange advances across disciplines and to develop the roadmap for the next generation of FCWSI tools. Training and workshops will support the co-creation of code coupling methodologies and libraries to support the range of CFD codes used in an open source environment for community use and to aid parallel implementation. The CCP-WSI+ will carry out a software audit on WSI codes and the data repository and website will be extended and enhanced with database visualisation and archiving to allow for contributions from the expanded community. Code developments will be supported through provision and management of the code repository, user support and training in software engineering and best practice for coupling and parallelisation.
By bringing together two communities of researchers who are independently investigating new computational methods for fluids and structures, we believe we will be able to co-design the next generation of FCWSI tools with realism both in the flow physics and the structural response, and in this way, will unlock new complex applications in ocean and coastal engineering
Since being established in 2015, CCP-WSI has provided strategic leadership for the WSI community, and has been successful in generating impact in: Strategy setting, Contributions to knowledge, and Strategic software development and support. The existing CCP-WSI network has identified priorities for WSI code development through industry focus group workshops; it has advanced understanding of the applicability and reliability of WSI through an internationally recognised Blind Test series; and supported collaborative code development.
Acceleration of the offshore renewable energy sector and protection of coastal communities are strategic priorities for the UK and involve complex WSI challenges. Designers need computational tools that can deal with complex environmental load conditions and complex structures with confidence in their reliability and appropriate use. Computational tools are essential for design and assessment within these priority areas and there is a need for continued support of their development, appropriate utilisation and implementation to take advantage of recent advances in HPC architecture.
Both the CFD and CSM communities have similar challenges in needing computationally efficient code development suitable for simulations of design cases of greater and greater complexity and scale. Many different codes are available commercially and are developed in academia, but there remains considerable uncertainty in the reliability of their use in different applications and of independent qualitative measures of the quality of a simulation.
One of the novelties of this CCP is that in addition to considering the interface between fluids and structures from a computational perspective, we propose to bring together the two UK expert communities who are leading developments in those respective fields. The motivation is to develop FCWSI software, which couples the best in class CFD tools with the most recent innovations in computational solid mechanics. Due to the complexity of both fields, this would not be achievable without interdisciplinary collaboration and co-design of FCWSI software.
The CCP-WSI+ will bring the CFD and CSM communities together through a series of networking events and industry workshops designed to share good practice and exchange advances across disciplines and to develop the roadmap for the next generation of FCWSI tools. Training and workshops will support the co-creation of code coupling methodologies and libraries to support the range of CFD codes used in an open source environment for community use and to aid parallel implementation. The CCP-WSI+ will carry out a software audit on WSI codes and the data repository and website will be extended and enhanced with database visualisation and archiving to allow for contributions from the expanded community. Code developments will be supported through provision and management of the code repository, user support and training in software engineering and best practice for coupling and parallelisation.
By bringing together two communities of researchers who are independently investigating new computational methods for fluids and structures, we believe we will be able to co-design the next generation of FCWSI tools with realism both in the flow physics and the structural response, and in this way, will unlock new complex applications in ocean and coastal engineering
Planned Impact
The proposed new CCP-WSI+ builds on the experience of the existing CCP-WSI in generating significant impact in the area of Wave-Structure Interaction through a range of different pathways. Extending the CCP-WSI to include CSM and CFD academic and industry experts will create greater impact and trigger the development of codes suitable for dealing with the latest challenges in offshore and coastal engineering, addressing complex WSI cases that could not be tackled if the two communities were to remain separated.
The envisaged impact will affect a wide range of participants through the extensive project partner list already signed up to the project, and will be generated by the proposed new CCP-WSI+ in three areas.
1. The CCP-WSI+ will provide leadership and strategy setting and will connect communities to enable them to tackle FCWSI challenges together.
2. Events proposed by the CCP-WSI+ will provide participants with effective networking activities to allow development and sharing of ideas and processes for validation by laboratory measurements and other available data. The training courses and workshops will also provide the skills to develop code within the shared opensource environment; to develop new code sustainably (software engineered and quality assured); to validate and present data to accepted standards; to validate and release new codes in wave structure interaction. The CCP-WSI+ focus group and road mapping exercise will provide a framework for innovation and the development of strategic software for WSI applications.
3. Dissemination of the research findings to potential end-users will be achieved through active participation in the CCP-WSI+ events and through publications in leading refereed international journals and conference proceedings related to the field. These will include journals and conferences specialising in high performance computing as well as mainstream fluid mechanics and structural mechanics journals.
4. Pathways to maximising the influence of the codes for WSI and maintaining software sustainability will be achieved through community code developments and CoSeC support for code coupling and parallelisation. The existing web site, data and code repository for CCP-WSI will be enhanced by adding new materials to include recent developments of CFD and CSM and code coupling, open source codes and information on workshop events for further code developments as well as for sharing and dissemination of research outcomes. Dissemination and promotion of the CCP-WSI+ to the wider community will be achieved through school workshops and public events.
5. The skills of professionals who attend the training courses, workshops, hackathons, blind tests and other proposed events by the network will be improved, both in development, use and exploitation of the software. Thus, the companies in relevant sectors will have better opportunities to employ suitably skilled professionals to tackle the challenges they face in engineering practice.
The envisaged impact will affect a wide range of participants through the extensive project partner list already signed up to the project, and will be generated by the proposed new CCP-WSI+ in three areas.
1. The CCP-WSI+ will provide leadership and strategy setting and will connect communities to enable them to tackle FCWSI challenges together.
2. Events proposed by the CCP-WSI+ will provide participants with effective networking activities to allow development and sharing of ideas and processes for validation by laboratory measurements and other available data. The training courses and workshops will also provide the skills to develop code within the shared opensource environment; to develop new code sustainably (software engineered and quality assured); to validate and present data to accepted standards; to validate and release new codes in wave structure interaction. The CCP-WSI+ focus group and road mapping exercise will provide a framework for innovation and the development of strategic software for WSI applications.
3. Dissemination of the research findings to potential end-users will be achieved through active participation in the CCP-WSI+ events and through publications in leading refereed international journals and conference proceedings related to the field. These will include journals and conferences specialising in high performance computing as well as mainstream fluid mechanics and structural mechanics journals.
4. Pathways to maximising the influence of the codes for WSI and maintaining software sustainability will be achieved through community code developments and CoSeC support for code coupling and parallelisation. The existing web site, data and code repository for CCP-WSI will be enhanced by adding new materials to include recent developments of CFD and CSM and code coupling, open source codes and information on workshop events for further code developments as well as for sharing and dissemination of research outcomes. Dissemination and promotion of the CCP-WSI+ to the wider community will be achieved through school workshops and public events.
5. The skills of professionals who attend the training courses, workshops, hackathons, blind tests and other proposed events by the network will be improved, both in development, use and exploitation of the software. Thus, the companies in relevant sectors will have better opportunities to employ suitably skilled professionals to tackle the challenges they face in engineering practice.
Organisations
- Plymouth University (Lead Research Organisation)
- Aalborg University (Project Partner)
- ESI Group (UK) (Project Partner)
- Swansea University (Project Partner)
- CARDIFF UNIVERSITY (Project Partner)
- Jeremy Benn Associates (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- University of Surrey (Project Partner)
- University College Dublin (Project Partner)
- Itasca Consultants (Germany) (Project Partner)
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Project Partner)
- Lloyd's Register Foundation (Project Partner)
- National University of Ireland, Maynooth (Project Partner)
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Project Partner)
- Austral University of Chile (Project Partner)
- Sichuan University (Project Partner)
- Wave Venture Ltd (Project Partner)
- UK Association for Computational Mechani (Project Partner)
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras (Project Partner)
- Hamburg University of Technology (Project Partner)
- University of Hong Kong (Project Partner)
- University of Oxford (Project Partner)
- General Lighthouse Authorities (Project Partner)
- Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (Project Partner)
- Brunel University London (Project Partner)
- Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada (Project Partner)
- KU Leuven (Project Partner)
- CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY (Project Partner)
- NAFEMS Ltd (Project Partner)
- University of Manchester (Project Partner)
- University College London (Project Partner)
- University of Cantabria (Project Partner)
- University of Western Australia (Project Partner)
- MeyGen Ltd (Project Partner)
- Carnegie Clean Energy (Project Partner)
- Dalian University of Technology (Project Partner)
- Universidade de Vigo (Project Partner)
- University of Cambridge (Project Partner)
- Airbus (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- University of Bristol (Project Partner)
- Kyoto University (Project Partner)
- DNV GL Energy (Project Partner)
- Ramboll (Denmark) (Project Partner)
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Project Partner)
Publications
Arregui-Mena J
(2022)
Using porous random fields to predict the elastic modulus of unoxidized and oxidized superfine graphite
in Materials & Design
Arregui-Mena JD
(2023)
SEM and TEM data of nuclear graphite and glassy carbon microstructures.
in Data in brief
Arregui-Mena JD
(2022)
Microstructural characterization data of as received IG-110, 2114 and ETU-10 nuclear graphite grades and oxidation characterization data of IG-110.
in Data in brief
Barron J
(2024)
Seismic performance of shared suction caisson anchors installed in liquefiable sand for floating offshore wind turbines
in Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Bingham H
(2021)
Ocean Energy Systems Wave Energy Modeling Task 10.4: Numerical Modeling of a Fixed Oscillating Water Column
in Energies
Brown S
(2021)
Assessing focused wave impacts on floating wave energy converters using OpenFOAM
in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering and Computational Mechanics
| Description | Code coupling approaches for CFD and CSM solvers Parallelisation of WSI codes for use on HPC architectures. Test cases defined and shared with the community. Blind tests and comparative tests run as community participation exercises to assist with code development and capability assessment. Training courses, code developers workshops and hackathons for community code development. |
| Exploitation Route | Use of code and coupling approaches in the CCP-WSI code repository. Use of benchmark test data for comparative studies and code development. |
| Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine |
| URL | https://ccp-wsi.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Code developments and data repository used by CFD practitioners. The CCP/HEC-WSI catalogue (https://www.ccp-wsi.ac.uk/catalogue/) aims to be a high-impact output for the wave structure interaction community within the UK and even internationally. It has the potential to be a rich resource of research objects, connecting projects, test cases, software and solvers, publications, events and more by common themes. The search capability and side filter bars of the catalogue have been implemented and will enhance discoverability, identifying gaps in the community as well as reducing repetition. Catalogue users will be able to find and compare codes, attend events they might not have known about, form new and productive collaborations and increase the visibility of their work resulting in higher impact. All this will help researchers and industry partners alike to achieve more in the field of Wave Structure Interaction. A range of community numerical benchmark studies have been run as part of the collaborative computational project on wave-structure interaction (CCP-WSI) project [EP/T026782/1], with comparison against physical modelling benchmark data. These studies fall into two categories: Blind Tests, where the physical data is not released until the participants have submitted their results; and comparative studies, where the physical data is open to all participants from the beginning of the exercise. These CCP-WSI Blind Test and Comparative Workshops have been devised to provide a better understanding of present numerical modelling standards and inform future development. Blind Test Series 1 considered focused wave interaction with a fixed FPSO structure using physical data obtained through the FROTH project [EP/J012866/1]. This workshop was held in conjunction with the ISOPE 2018 conference, leading to 3 special sessions, and 11 presentations from a group of 13 international academic and industrial participants. Dr Shiqiang Yan won the 'Session Organizer Award (CNOOC-CSL Prize)' for initiating the CCP-WSI Sessions. The final report, and a selection of submissions, are published in the IJOPE. The data is now publicly available as a numerical benchmark entitled 'CCP-WSI Test Case 003'. Blind Test Series 2 and 3 investigated focused wave interaction with floating structures representing simplified WECs using models developed through the X-MED project [EP/J010235/1]. These events were held in collaboration with EWTEC 2019 and ISOPE 2019 conferences, respectively, with 3 special sessions and a side event at each. Data was submitted by 13 different international academic and industry groups for Blind Test 2, 14 for Blind Test 3. The final report and a selection of submissions are published in the associated journal for each event, with the former winning the 2021 'Baker Medal' for the third best paper overall. The data is now publicly available for numerical benchmarking as 'CCP-WSI Test Case 004' and 'CCP-WSI Test Case 005'. Blind Test Series 4 considered focused wave impacts with flexible membranes, with physical data collected through the FlexWave Project [EP/V040367/1]. The CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 4 was run in conjunction with the ISOPE 2023 conference in Ottawa, Canada (19-23 June 2023). 3 contributions were made to the technical program and 2 papers are published in the conference proceedings. The test cases associated with Blind Test will be used to form the CCP-WSI Comparative Study 2 and will be made publicly available as 'CCP-WSI Test Case 014'. The 1st FOWT Comparative Study (part of the CCP-WSI Flagship project EP/T004150/1) focused on wave interaction with physical data for a semi-submersible FOWT model developed and collected through the Extreme Loading on Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWTs) under Complex Environmental Conditions project [EP/T004177/1]. The results were delivered at ISOPE 2023 conference in Ottawa, Canada (19-23 June 2023), with 17 contributions to the technical conference programme and the conference proceedings, and the data is publicly available as 'CCP-WSI Test Case 015'. Overall, there are currently 15 CCP-WSI Test cases developed by the community for numerical benchmarking for a range of wave-structure interaction applications. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2021 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Energy,Environment,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
| Impact Types | Economic |
| Description | Coupling Wind and Stress Models for a Wind Turbine Blade, Europe Network Fund |
| Amount | £8,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | EP/V050079/1 - Severe Storm Wave Loads on Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations (SEA-SWALLOWS) |
| Amount | £794,581 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V050079/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 06/2024 |
| Description | New Generation Modelling Suite for the Survivability of Wave Energy Convertors in Marine Environments (WavE-Suite) |
| Amount | £1,003,317 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V040235/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| End | 08/2024 |
| Title | CCP/HEC-WSI Catalogue |
| Description | The CCP/HEC-WSI catalogue (https://www.ccp-wsi.ac.uk/catalogue/) aims to be a high-impact output for the wave structure interaction community within the UK and even internationally. It has the potential to be a rich resource of research objects, connecting projects, test cases, software and solvers, publications, events and more by common themes. The search capability and side filter bars of the catalogue have been implemented and will enhance discoverability, identifying gaps in the community as well as reducing repetition. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Catalogue users will be able to find and compare codes, attend events they might not have known about, form new and productive collaborations and increase the visibility of their work resulting in higher impact. All this will help researchers and industry partners alike to achieve more in the field of Wave Structure Interaction. |
| URL | https://ccp-wsi.ac.uk/catalogue/ |
| Title | Hydrodynamic response of a floating offshore wind turbine (1st FOWT Comparative Study Dataset) |
| Description | The study considers the hydrostatic and hydrodynamic response of a 1:70 scale model of the IEA 15MW reference wind turbine (IEA-15-240-RWT) and UMaine VolturnUS-S semi-submersible platform. The test cases consist of static equilibrium load cases, free decay tests (in heave, surge and pitch) and a pair of focused wave cases (one 'operational' and one 'extreme'). This dataset includes the physical measurement data for the study and was generated in the COAST Laboratory Ocean Basin at the University of Plymouth, UK.. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The dataset is made publicly available through CCP-WSI as part of the '1st FOWT Comparative Study'. This study was run in conjunction with the ISOPE 2023 conference, in Ottawa, Canada, 19-23 June 2023 as part of the EPSRC funded project entitled 'Extreme Loading on Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWT) under Complex Environmental Conditions.' The study led to 17 contributions to the technical conference programme, and is available as a benchmark through CCP-WSI as 'Test Case 015'. |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/20151 |
| Title | L&R Physical Modelling Data: Regular Wave Interaction with Elastic Floating Structures (CCP-WSI Test Case 016 Dataset) |
| Description | Physical modelling data for four floating flexible structures of varying dimensions subjected to regular waves. The data was collected in a wave flume at the COAST Laboratory. A full description of the physical modelling setup can be found at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apor.2022.103363. The dataset is published as a numerical benchmark (test case 016) through the CCP-WSI project (https://www.ccp-wsi.ac.uk/data_repository/test_cases/test_case_016). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Originally published in Brown et al. (2023) 'Investigation of wave-driven hydroelastic interactions using numerical and physical modelling approaches'. Physical modelling data made available to the WSI community through CCP-WSI as a test case for floating elatic structures. |
| URL | https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/21778 |
| Description | 10th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attendance and presentations given at 10th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering: "Numerical modelling of stiffness and damping evolution of offshore monopile foundations under lateral cyclic loading" by I.O. Aghedo (Newcastle University) "Performance of shared suction caisson anchors for floating offshore wind turbines subject to seismic loading with varying orientation" JR Barron (Newcastle University) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | 10th PRIMaRE Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The annual PRIMaRE conference provides a forum for exchanging the latest research & development and fostering collaborations in Marine Renewable Energy. The event provided an excellent forum to foster collaboration between industry and academia, which is essential to ensure that the marine energy sector can achieve its full commercial potential, maximising job creation and export opportunities, whilst allowing the UK to remain a global leader in the associated engineering and policy expertise. The event was attended by 100+ participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.primare.org/events-news/primare-conference/10th-primare-conference/ |
| Description | 14th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 14th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Plymouth, UK. CCP-WSI Working Group members attended, presented and were involved in the organisation/delivery of the international event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | 1st FOWT Comparative Study - ISOPE 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The 1st FOWT Comparative Study (part of the CCP-WSI Flagship project EP/T004150/1) was delivered at ISOPE 2023 conference in Ottawa, Canada (19-23 June 2023), with 17 contributions to the technical conference programme and the conference proceedings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | 1st FOWT Comparative Study - Launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Launch of the 1st FOWT Comparative Study to be held in conjunction with the ISOPE 2023 conference (19-23 June 2023, Ottawa, Canada) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 1st UKRI STFC National Labs Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | "The Computational Science Centre for Research Communities (CoSeC) and Marine Energy Applications", Stephen Longshaw, The 1st UKRI STFC National Labs Conference, September 2023. It is a presentation on the CCP-WSI+ related works at the UKRI STFC National Labs Research Conference that attracted 150 attendees both in-person and virtually. The attendees are STFC staff from sites across the whole UK. This presentation made awareness of the CCP-WSI-related works to STFC staff from various disciplines and has the potential to foster further cross-discipline collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | 22nd Computational Fluids Conference (CFC2023) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Mini-symposium on "Computational Simulation of Coupled Multiphysics Problems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | 2nd CCP-WSI Hackathon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The 2nd CCP-WSI Hackathon - hosted by the University of Exeter based around generalised code coupling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 2nd CCP-WSI Hackathon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 2nd CCP-WSI Hackathon - hosted by the University of Exeter based around generalised code coupling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 32nd International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Members of the CCP-WSI working group involve in technical programme committee and also attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 32nd International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Members of the CCP-WSI working group involve in technical programme committee and also attending. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 33rd International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attendance and presentation at 33rd International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference: "The Seismic performance of suction caisson anchors subjected to tensile loading for floating offshore wind turbines" presented by JR Barron (Newcastle University) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | 3rd CCP-WSI Code Developers' Workshop (online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lectures delivered by STFC, presentations from an international group of experts and splash talks from community members centred around the theme of code-coupling |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 6th Airbus/Ariane Sloshing and Ditching Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 6th Airbus/Ariane Sloshing and Ditching Symposium. CCP-WSI representatives attended/participated in this event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 6th Airbus/Ariane Sloshing and Ditching Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | CCP-WSI representatives attended/participated in this event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 8th PRIMaRE Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 8th PRIMaRE Conference, host by Bangor University (online). CCP-WSI representatives presented and participated at the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 4 - ISOPE 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 4 was run in conjunction with the ISOPE 2023 conference in Ottawa, Canada (19-23 June 2023). There were 8 expressions of interest, 3 contributions were made to the technical program and 2 papers are published in the conference proceedings. The test cases associated with Blind Test will be used to form the CCP-WSI Comparative Study 2 which will be published in a special issue of the International Marine Energy Journal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 4 - Launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Launch of the next CCP-WSI Blind Test to be held in conjunction with the ISOPE 2023 conference (19-23 June 2023, Ottawa, Canada) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | CCP-WSI Code Developers' Workshop 2. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CCP-WSI Code Developers' Workshop 2. CCP-WSI Organised engagement event, held online over 2 days. 17 invited speakers from all over the world presenting/discussing state-of-the-art research activity under the themes of Code Coupling and Multi-physics Simulation, Improving speed/efficiency and exploiting emerging HPC architectures, and Modelling Large Deformations of Complex Material. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CCP-WSI Comparative Study 1 - final workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dissemination event corresponding to the results/conclusions from the CCP-WSI Comparative Study 1 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | CCP-WSI Comparative Study 1 - final workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | CCP-WSI Comparative Study 1 - final workshop - dissemination event corresponding to the results/conclusions from the CCP-WSI Comparative Study 1. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | CCP-WSI Comparative Study 1 - interim webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Online workshop presenting and discussion preliminary contributions to the CCP-WSI Comparative Study 1 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | CCP-WSI Comparative Study 1 - interim webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Online workshop presenting and discussion preliminary contributions to the CCP-WSI Comparative Study 1. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | CCP-WSI Focus Group Workshop 4 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The latest CCP-WSI Industry Engagement event held in conjunction with the 10th PRIMaRE Conference at the University of Bath, UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.primare.org/events-news/primare-conference/10th-primare-conference/ |
| Description | CCP-WSI Showcase Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CCP-WSI Showcase Event (special session at ISOPE 2021, Rhodes, Greece (online/virtual)). CCP-WSI community members contributed 9 papers to the conference's technical program and presented state-of-the-art WSI research in two sessions of the international conference (chaired by CCP-WSI Working Group members) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CCP-WSI Training Event - OpenFOAM Parallel Performance Engineering Training Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | It is a training workshop run at Daresbury Laboratory by CoSeC and offering a 2-day course aimed to provide an overview of programming new OpenFOAM capability and using it on parallel computing architectures. This hybrid workshop workshop attracted 30 in-person attendees from across the UK and 20 online UK/international audiences. Most of the attendees are PhD students and early career researchers. The course was delivered using Cloud training provision provided by the Scientific Computing Department with all course material available indefinitely on GitHub. We received numerous requests from individuals expressing interest in participating in this workshop. The level of interest indicates a strong engagement with the event's content and highlights the impact it created on the community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ccp-wsi.ac.uk/events/training/openfoam-parallel-performance-engineering-workshop/ |
| Description | China-UK Bilateral Workshop on Coastal Zone Disaster Early Warning and Mitigation under Extreme Weather |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Involved in organisation and delivery of worksop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CoSeC Annual Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | "Multiscale Universal Interface for Heterogeneous High-Performance Computing Systems", Omar Mahfoze, CoSeC annual conference and Computing Insight UK 2023, Manchester, 6th-8th December 2023. It is a presentation by CCP-WSI CoSeC staff at the annual CoSeC conference and Computing Insight UK 2023, which attracted about 75 academic researchers from various CoSeC-supported disciplines. The talk highlighted the excellence of CCP-WSI outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Code Coupling Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | CP-WSI promoted training workshop on general-purpose code coupling delivered online, over two days, by COSEC representatives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Code Coupling Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Code Coupling Workshop - CCP-WSI promoted training workshop on general-purpose code coupling delivered online, over two days, by COSEC representatives. ~60 registrations and ~30 attendees. Generally positive feedback |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Expert speaker for BBC Sounds 'The Curious Case of Rutherford and Fry' BBC Radio 4 scheduled programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited expert speaker on BBC Radio 4 scheduled programme 'The Curious Case of Rutherford and Fry' discussing the harnessing of wave and tidal energy from the oceans |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0015b80 |
| Description | FOWT code comparative study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A code comparative study for modelling hydrodynamics of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWT) has been organised at the ISOPE 2023 conference. The workshop received over 20 submissions from 17 research institutes from the UK, Europe and China. A number of engineering design coded and high-fidelity CFD codes have been used in the study and currently a scientific paper evaluating the submitted data against experimental data produced from the project is being prepared. The outcome would provide guidance on selecting an appropriate numerical code for modelling hydrodynamic loads on FOWTs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | HEC-WSI Annual Workshop 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | an online event dedicated to the High-End Computing Consortium for Wave-Structure Interaction (HEC-WSI) community. This workshop is designed to heighten awareness of the HEC-WSI and its role in advancing WSI research on new and emerging HPC resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://hec-wsi.ac.uk/events/annual_workshop_2023/ |
| Description | ICE Publishing Awards 2021: |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ICE Publishing Awards 2021: CCP-WSI members awarded the Baker Medal (for third best paper overall) for the paper "Modelling of focused wave interaction with wave energy converter models using qaleFOAM", part of the themed issue on the CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 2. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | "CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 4-Simulation of Focused Wave Interactions with a Submerged Flexible Membrane Using the ParaSiF Framework", Wendi Liu, International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, Ottawa, 19th-23rd June 2023. This is a presentation to provide the latest results of the CCP-WSI project. About 25 international audiences from the ocean engineering field joined that session. There was a good mix of academic and industry audiences so as to raise awareness of the activities conducted by the CCP-WSI community and showcase the excellence of CCP-WSI-related outputs. Includes a contribution to the CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 4 and dissemination to international audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Meeting with STFC Library Group Leader |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "CCP-WSI Resource Object Catalogue", Gemma Poulter, April, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory UK, Meeting with STFC Library Group Leader to encourage collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Mini-Symposium "Modelling and simulation of multiphase flows" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A mini-symposium organised at the 22nd IACM Computational Fluids Conference (CFC23) in Cannes, France entitled "Modelling and simulation of multiphase flows". The session was proposed and arranged in collaboration with the developers of the preCICE coupling library and the University of Exeter and provided a platform for a number of CoSeC staff to present their work: "Creating Partitioned Coupled Approaches using the Multiscale Universal Interface Coupling Library", presented by Omar Mahfoze; and "A Multiphase Fluid-Fluid and Fluid-Structure Coupling Framework based on preCICE for Marine Applications" present by Yiyun (Raynold) Tan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Moody/CCP-WSI Joint Workshop 1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | an in-person immersive workshop on MoodyMarine, a state-of-the-art software tool for modelling dynamic moorings and performing station-keeping simulations. Led by the developers of the software, and host by the University of Plymouth this workshop aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of MoodyMarine and its vital role in hydrodynamics modelling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ccp-wsi.ac.uk/events/code_developers_workshops/moody_joint_workshop_1/ |
| Description | SIG-SPH/CCP-WSI Joint Meeting 1 (Hybrid) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A joint meeting around the use of meshless methods for FSI problems was organised by the UK Fluids Network Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Special Interest Group and CCP-WSI. This SPH-SIG/CCP-WSI Joint Meeting brings together the SPH UK Fluids Network Special Interest Group and the CCP-WSI and HEC-WSI communities to discuss the latest advances in using meshless methods for fluid-structure interaction problems. Hosted by the University of Bristol, the event included introductions and information on the research communities, technical talks from leading experts in the field, networking and broader group discussions. It attracted 25 academic researchers who were interested in CCP-WSI as well as SPH from across the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ccp-wsi.ac.uk/events/code_developers_workshops/sph-sig_joint_meeting_1/ |
| Description | Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attendance and presentation at Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics conference: "The effect of varying peak ground acceleration on the seismic performance of shared suction caisson anchors" presented y JR Barron (Newcastle University) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | The 16th OpenFOAM Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The 16th OpenFOAM Workshop (held fully online) hosted by University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. The CCP-WSI was presented and CCP-WSI representatives attended/participated in the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | The 33rd International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, Ottawa, Canada |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of University of Plymouth's contribution to the 1st FOWT comparative study, given by Dr Edward Ransley. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | The 3rd UCL OpenFOAM Workshop. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The 3rd UCL OpenFOAM Workshop. Members of the CCP-WSI Working group presented at the 3rd UCL OpenFOAM Workshop which aims to help beginners start using OpenFOAM and enable experienced users to collaborate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |