Professor Jun Zang - A New Approach: Better and Faster for Estimating Complex Nonlinear Wave Loading on Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations AbstractOffshore structures, including offshore wind turbine foundations, marine renewable energy devices, and floating vessels are routinely exposed to harsh environmental loads. These frequently drive the design. Accurately predicting violent nonlinear wave loading is essential for such structures' safe and efficient design. Morison equation, an empirical equation, was proposed in the 1950s for calculating wave loading on offshore structures; it remains in use today.This talk will provide an overview of our recent studies on violent wave loading on offshore structures with a particular focus on monopiles, typical offshore wind turbine foundations. Our experiments at DHI in Denmark yielded new observations, leading to the development of a new novel method for rapidly predicting violent nonlinear wave loading on these foundations. We will present and discuss the performance of this new approach, comparing it with additional experiments conducted at the Kelvin Hydrodynamics Laboratory (UK) and DUT (China).The presentation will also explore and compare the performance of several numerical methods used to address this problem, from potential flow solver to particle method. Special emphasis will be placed on the significance of high-order nonlinear wave loading and our observations and recommendations for selecting the appropriate methods for simulations.BiographyProf Jun Zang is a Chair Professor of Coastal and Ocean Engineering and Deputy Head of the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath. She was the Chair of PRIMaRE (2022-2023), a Partnership of world-class research institutions based in the UK for research in MarineRenewable Energy. Jan 23 2025 13.00 - 14.00 Professor Jun Zang - A New Approach: Better and Faster for Estimating Complex Nonlinear Wave Loading on Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations Edinburgh Fluid Dynamics Group welcomes Professor Jun Zang in series of colloquia co-funded by the Schools of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics and Astronomy. G.27 Lecture Theatre 1, Daniel Rutherford Building, King's Buildings This article was published on Wednesday 2 September 2026
Professor Jun Zang - A New Approach: Better and Faster for Estimating Complex Nonlinear Wave Loading on Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations AbstractOffshore structures, including offshore wind turbine foundations, marine renewable energy devices, and floating vessels are routinely exposed to harsh environmental loads. These frequently drive the design. Accurately predicting violent nonlinear wave loading is essential for such structures' safe and efficient design. Morison equation, an empirical equation, was proposed in the 1950s for calculating wave loading on offshore structures; it remains in use today.This talk will provide an overview of our recent studies on violent wave loading on offshore structures with a particular focus on monopiles, typical offshore wind turbine foundations. Our experiments at DHI in Denmark yielded new observations, leading to the development of a new novel method for rapidly predicting violent nonlinear wave loading on these foundations. We will present and discuss the performance of this new approach, comparing it with additional experiments conducted at the Kelvin Hydrodynamics Laboratory (UK) and DUT (China).The presentation will also explore and compare the performance of several numerical methods used to address this problem, from potential flow solver to particle method. Special emphasis will be placed on the significance of high-order nonlinear wave loading and our observations and recommendations for selecting the appropriate methods for simulations.BiographyProf Jun Zang is a Chair Professor of Coastal and Ocean Engineering and Deputy Head of the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath. She was the Chair of PRIMaRE (2022-2023), a Partnership of world-class research institutions based in the UK for research in MarineRenewable Energy. Jan 23 2025 13.00 - 14.00 Professor Jun Zang - A New Approach: Better and Faster for Estimating Complex Nonlinear Wave Loading on Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations Edinburgh Fluid Dynamics Group welcomes Professor Jun Zang in series of colloquia co-funded by the Schools of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics and Astronomy. G.27 Lecture Theatre 1, Daniel Rutherford Building, King's Buildings This article was published on Wednesday 2 September 2026
Jan 23 2025 13.00 - 14.00 Professor Jun Zang - A New Approach: Better and Faster for Estimating Complex Nonlinear Wave Loading on Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations Edinburgh Fluid Dynamics Group welcomes Professor Jun Zang in series of colloquia co-funded by the Schools of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics and Astronomy.
