III Level Course on "Modeling Offshore Renewable Energy Systems with High-Fidelity Models" by Dr. Bonaventura Tagliaferro

The course will be held by Dr. Bonaventura Tagliaferro.

Bio
Bonaventura Tagliafierro is a Researcher in Renewable Energy Systems and Numerical Modeling. Now Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Uppsala University (Sweden) at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, advised by Prof. Malin Göteman. Completed his doctoral program at the University of Salerno (Italy – 2022), specializing in design of steel structures and numerical methods for structural verification. Has been collaborating with EPhysLab (University of Vigo, Spain) since 2019 as a researcher and has also joined the DualSPHysics code project, and since 2023 acts as Wiki Coordinator. Research interests include finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, multibody systems, and coupling between fluid and solid mechanics. Computational methodologies include the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) technique: a meshless method for developing Lagrangian frameworks. Code applications involve wave energy converters, floating offshore wind turbine platforms, and steel structures, aiming at investigating performance under extreme events. Formerly, post-doctoral researcher at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2022–2024, Spain); was awarded a Fulbright Schuman fellowship to research on the numerical implementation of control systems for offshore wind technology at Simulation Based Engineering Lab (SBEL, UW-Madison, US) using Project Chrono.


Course Plan

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 13:00 – 16:00 - Aula 19
• Course introduction and overview of floating structures
• Offshore renewable energy technologies (wind & wave)
• 16:00 – 18:00 - Aula 17
• Coastal protection structures
• Environmental loads

• 08:30 – 11:30 - Aula 17
• Functional requirements and techno-economic considerations
• Low- and high-fidelity numerical modeling
• 13:00 – 16:00 - Aula 6I
• Introduction to CFD and SPH methods
• Case study: Application to Oscillating Water Column devices

• 10:30 – 13:00 - Aula 17
• Introduction to hands-on activities
• Design parameter definition and case studies
• Group work and feedback
• 14:00 – 17:30 - Aula 6C
• Continuation of hands-on work

• 09:00 – 12:00 - Aula 6C
• Finalization of group work
• 13:30 – 15:30 - Aula 2C
• Group presentations and closing discussion

• poster (2 MB)