Centre for Offshore Renewable Energy Research (CORER)

Research Projects

National Oceanography Centre

SuperGen Marine Challenge

• Project: Interactions of flow, tidal stream turbines and local sediment bed under combined waves and tidal conditions (INSTRON)
• Investigators: Laurent Amoudry, Peter Thorne
• Lead: Dong, Dundee
• Funder: EPSRC

SuperGen Marine Challenge II

• Project: EcoWatt2050
• Investigators: Judith Wolf
• Lead: Side, Herriot-Watt, Orkney
• Funder: EPSRC

NERC project: Flow and Benthic Ecology 4D (FLOWBEC): Grant number NE/J004332/1

• Investigators: Paul Bell
• Funder: NERC

NOC Researcher ORE Publications

• Wolf, J., Walkington, I.A., Holt, J. and Burrows, R. (2009) Environmental impacts of tidal power schemes. Proceedings of the ICE - Maritime Engineering, 162 (4), 165–177.
• Yates, N., Walkington, I., Burrows, R. and Wolf, J. (2013) Appraising the extractable tidal energy resource of the UK's western coastal waters. Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society A vol 371 issue 1985
• Burrows R., Walkington I., Yates N., Hedges T.S., Li M., Zhou J.G., Chen D.Y., Wolf J., Holt J., Proctor R. (2009) Tidal energy potential in UK waters. Proceedings of the ICE – Maritime Engineering vol 162 issue 4 pp 155–164
• Yates, N., Walkington, I., Burrows, R. and Wolf, J. (2013) The energy gains realisable through pumping for tidal range energy schemes, Renewable Energy, 58, October 2013, pp79–84, ISSN 0960-1481,
• Buckland, H.C., Masters, I., Orme, J.A.C., and Baker, T. (2013) Cavitation Inception and Simulation in BEMT for Modelling Tidal Stream Turbines Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Journal of Power and Energy Part A vol. 227 no. 4 479–485

University of Liverpool

SuperGen challenge

• Project: The Effects of Realistic Tidal Flows on the Performance and Structural Integrity of Tidal Stream Turbines.
• Investigators: Rob Poole, Ieuan Owen (Lincoln), Ming Li
• Funder: EPSRC

SuperGen challenge

• Project: Interactions of flow, tidal stream turbines and local sediment bed under combined waves and tidal conditions (INSTRON)
• Investigator: Ming Li (link with NOC)
• Funder: EPSRC

UoL Researcher ORE Publications

• Mason-Jones, A., O’Doherty, D.M., Morris, C.E., O’Doherty, T., Byrne, C.B, Prickett, P.W., Grosvenor, R.I, Owen, I., Tedds, S.C., and Poole, R.J. (2012) Non-dimensional scaling of tidal stream turbines. Energy vol 44 pp 820–829
• Tedds, S.C., Owen I. and Poole R.J. (2014) Near-wake characteristics of a model Horizontal Axis Tidal Stream Turbine. Renewable Energy. 63 pp 222–235 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2013.09.011
• Wolf, J., Walkington, I.A., Holt, J. and Burrows, R. (2009) Environmental impacts of tidal power schemes. Proceedings of the ICE – Maritime Engineering, 162 (4), 165–77.
• Yates, N., Walkington, I., Burrows, R. and Wolf, J. (2013) Appraising the extractable tidal energy resource of the UK’s western coastal waters. Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society A vol 371 issue 1985
• Burrows R., Walkington I., Yates N., Hedges T.S., Li M., Zhou J.G., Chen D.Y., Wolf J., Holt J., Proctor R. (2009) Tidal energy potential in UK waters. Proceedings of the ICE – Maritime Engineering vol 162 issue 4 pp 155–164
• Yates, N., Walkington, I., Burrows, R. and Wolf, J. (2013) The energy gains realisable through pumping for tidal range energy schemes, Renewable Energy, 58, October 2013, Pages 79–84, ISSN 0960-1481,
• Burrows, R., Walkington, I., Yates, N., Hedges, T. S., Wolf, J., Holt, J. (2009) The tidal range energy potential of the West Coast of the United Kingdom. Applied Ocean Research vol 31 pp 229–238
• Walkington, I., Burrows, R., (2009) Modelling tidal stream power potential. Applied Ocean Research vol 31 pp 239–245

The University of Southampton

SUPERGEN Marine Grand Challenge

• Feasibility Study of the Impacts of a Proposed Tidal Array Installation in Alderney South Banks
• Project: Reducing the Costs of Marine Renewables via Advanced Structural Materials
• Investigators: Southampton, Strathclyde (lead) and Newcastle
• Funder: EPSRC

• Project: Feasibility Study of the Impacts of a Proposed Tidal Array Installation in Alderney South Banks

UoS Researcher ORE Publications

• Blackmore, T., Batten, W.M.J., Müller, G.U. and Bahaj, A.S. (2014) Influence of turbulence on the drag of solid discs and turbine simulators in a water current, Experiments in Fluids, Volume 55, Article 1637
• Galloway, P.W., Myers, L.E. and Bahaj, A.S. (2014) Quantifying wave and yaw effects on a scale tidal stream turbine, Renewable Energy, Volume 63, pp297–307.
• Leybourne, M., Batten, W.M.J., Bahaj, A.S., Minns, N. and O’Nians J. (2014) Preliminary design of the OWEL wave energy converter pre-commercial demonstrator, Renewable Energy, Volume 61, pp51–56
• Bahaj, A.S. and Myers, L.E. (2013) Shaping array design of marine current energy converters through scaled experimental analysis, Energy, Volume 59, pp83–94
• Blackmore, T., Batten, W.M.J. and Bahaj, A.S. (2013) Inlet grid-generated turbulence for large-eddy simulations, International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Volume 27, Issue 6–7, pp307–315
• Bahaj, A.S. (2013) Marine current energy conversion: the dawn of a new era in electricity production, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A., Volume 371, No, 1985
• Batten, W.M.J., Harrison, M.E. and Bahaj, A.S. (2013) Accuracy of the actuator disc-RANS approach for predicting the performance and wake of tidal turbines, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A., Volume 371, No, 1985
• Daly, T., Myers, L.E. and Bahaj, A.S. (2013) Modelling of the flow field surrounding tidal turbine arrays for varying positions in a channel, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A., Volume 371, No, 1985
• Blunden, L.S., Bahaj, A.S. and Aziz, N.S. (2013) Tidal current power for Indonesia? An initial resource estimation for the Alas Strait, Renewable Energy, Volume 49, pp. 137–142
• Leybourne, M., Batten, W.M.J., Bahaj, A.S. Minns, N. and O’Nians, J. (2013) Preliminary design of the OWEL wave energy converter pre-commercial demonstrator, Renewable Energy, Available online 13 September 2012
• Myers, L.E. and Bahaj, A.S. (2012) An experimental study of flow effects within 1st-generation marine current energy converter array, Renewable Energy, Volume 37, Issue 1, pp28–36
• Bahaj, A.S., Myers, L.E., Rawlinson-Smith, R. and Thomson, M. (2012) The effect of boundary proximity upon the wake structure of horizontal axis marine current turbines Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Volume 134, Issue 2, pp1–8 For older publications refer to https://www.energy.soton.ac.uk/publications

Ocean University of China

Research on sea-test technologies regulations and standards of newly developed oceanic instruments, 2013/1–2014/12, Project of National High-Tech Research and Development Program of China

Study and Optimization on Energy Converting Performance for Heaving-type Wave Energy Convertor. National Natural Science Foundation, 2014/1–2017/12

Demonstration of an Integrated Electricity System for 300KW Marine Energy Converters. National High Technology Research and Development Program, 2012/1–2014/12;

Hydraulic Model Test Study on Mina De Cobre Panama Project. Joint Venture Panama, 2012/3–2012/12;

Research and Experiment of Combined Oscillating Buoy Wave Energy Converter. Marine Renewable Energy Special Fund, 2011/8–2013/8;

Study on Sea Area Use Planning and Supporting Facility of South Beach District of Yangpu Port. Yangpu Economic Development Zone Economic Development Bureau, 2011/8–2013/8;

Sediment Analysis of Channel and Turning Basin Dredging in Qingdao Olympic Sailing Centre. China Railway Port and Channel Engineering Group Co., Ltd, 2011/6–2013/12;

Joint Research and Development of Key Technology on Intelligent Hybrid Electricity System for Marine Energy. International S&T Cooperation Program, 2011/1–2013/12;

Numerical Simulation Investigation on a New Type of Turbine for the Oscillating Water Column Wave Power Conversion Device. Doctoral Program Special Fund of Ministry of Education, 2011/1–2013/12.

OUC Researcher ORE Publications

• Liu, Z., Hyun, B-S. and Shi, H. (2010) Practical Simulation of Oscillating Water Column Chamber for Wave Energy Conversion (C). International Journal of Green Energy, Vol. 7(3) pp337–346.
• Huang, Y., Shi, H. et al. (2010) Study on the Breakwater Caisson as Oscillating Water Column Facility (J). Journal of Ocean University of China, Vol. 9(3) pp244–250.
• Liu Z., Shi H. et al. (2009) CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) Analysis of an Impulse Turbine in an OWC (Ocean Wave Converter) Wave Energy Device [J]. Journal of Engineering for Thermal Energy and Power