{"id":136352,"date":"2023-07-25T10:24:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T14:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352//?p=136352"},"modified":"2024-05-16T12:24:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T16:24:34","slug":"ucf-researcher-leads-3-3-million-project-to-develop-floating-offshore-wind-turbine-simulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352//ucf-researcher-leads-3-3-million-project-to-develop-floating-offshore-wind-turbine-simulators/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352//","title":{"rendered":"麻豆原创 Researcher Leads $3.3 Million Project to Develop Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Simulators"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 麻豆原创 engineering professor is leading a $3.3 million project funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to research floating offshore wind turbines./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/u201cMy goal is to model floating offshore wind turbines and use the model to explore design improvements while concurrently investigating new ideas for control and sensing, a concept that is termed Control Co-Design,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/u201d says Tuhin Das, the project/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/u2019s principal investigator and a professor in 麻豆原创/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/u2019s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/n

He is working to build a software that simulates effects of external phenomena, such as waves crashing and changing winds, on the floating platform and the turbine system./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/n

Floating offshore wind turbines are designed to diversify the repertoire of energy resources available in the U.S. and help increase the contribution of renewable energy to power grids as energy demands are steadily increasing./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/n

Das began the work in 2020 with phase one of the project. His initial funding was $772,000. The researcher/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/u2019s project recently received a boost with a new $3.3 million grant from ARPA-E to continue the research in phase two for the next three years./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/u201cIn phase one, our job was to show the kind of benefits we can bring to the modeling and simulation sector,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/u201d Das says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/u201cWe showed that our results were at par with industry-accepted models and experimental data./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/n

Das/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/u2019 software platform will become a product that can be hosted on a university web page and be licensed or commercialized, he says./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/u201cWe want this product to be mature enough so that at the end of the next three years, researchers from the industry and academia would be able to use this for advancing research in wind turbines,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/u201d Das says./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136352/n