Postgraduate Course: Physical Model Testing for Offshore Renewables (IDCORE) (PGEE11099)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Postgrad (School of Engineering) |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course addresses laboratory-based testing and field trials for assessment of performance and survivability,instrumentation technologies, data acquisition and analysis,analysis of Uncertainty and experiment design, in the context of a highly time- and cost-limited campaigns. The course will include lectures, hands-on demonstrations and mini-projects,taking full advantage of the range of internationally leadingfacilities available within the consortium. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course the students will
&· be familiar with different types of laboratories which may be used for offshore renewable testing;
&· be aware of key instrumentation technologies, both traditional and modern, which may be used in them, and application of best-practice guidelines/standards;
&· understand different scaling laws which may apply from lab-scale or intermediate-scale field-trials to full scale;
&· be familiar with basic approaches to data analysis and be able to estimate the levels of uncertainty of their measurements;
&· be aware of techniques which can help them choose an efficient set of tests in the context of a highly time- and cost-limited campaign. |
Assessment Information
4 X course submissions
Lab testing (25%)
Field trials (25%)
Instrumentation (25%)
Data acquisition and analysis (25%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Lab testing: device testing in wave tanks, towing tanks,flumes, and wind tunnels; similarity, extrapolation to full scale,and particular scaling challenges for lab testing of marinerenewable devices; material and structural testing ofcomponents; experiment design. Guidelines and standards.
Field Trials: environmental monitoring, instrumentation and data transfer challenges, site selection and choice of scale.
Instrumentation: measurement of fluid velocity, water surface
elevation, pressure, force, displacement, velocity and acceleration, non-intrusive measurement techniques including
PIV, LDA, and motion capture, and ultrasonics; measures of performance linearity and repeatability, calibration.
Data acquisition and analysis: data sampling, filtering,processing, statistical analysis; sources of uncertainty, bias and
precision, accumulation of uncertainty. |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Not entered |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
2 week intensive taught block |
| Keywords | Offshore Renewable Energy, Professional Doctorate, |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr David Ingram
Tel: (0131 6)51 9022
Email: David.Ingram@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | |
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