Annual Report 2015
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NOWITECH
Norwegian Research Centre for Offshore Wind Technology
NOWITECH PhD Students
The following PhD students have received financial support from NOWITECH and have completed or
are working towards a PhD. Those that have completed their PhD are marked with blue , and those that
completed in 2015 are also marked with a star (*).
PhD candidate
Period
Current Work
Place
WP Topic of PhD thesis
1 Bardal, Lars
Morten
2012-2015
NTNU
A Design wind and sea loads for offshore
wind turbines
2 Bracchi, Tania
2009-2013
NTNU (HiST)
A Downwind Rotor: Studies on yaw Stability
and Design of a Suitable Thin Airfoil
3* Cárdenas,
René Alexander
Barrera
2011–2014 JSPS fellowship
Univ Tsukuba
C Meta-parametrised meta-modelling
approach for optimal design of power
electronics conversion systems:
Application to offshore wind energy
4 Chabaud,
Valentin
2011–2016
NTNU
A Experimental investigation of coupled
hydrodynamic and aerodynamic
performance of floating wind turbines
5 Chella, Alegan
Mayilvahanan
2010-2014
NTNU
A Wave forces on wind turbine structures
6 Cox , Kevin
2010-2013
Christian
Michelsen
Research
B Lift control of wind turbine blades
by using smart composite materials
manipulating aerodynamics rotor
properties
7 Dombre,
Emmanuel
2011-2015
EDF
A Hydrodynamic modeling and analysis of
floating wind turbines
8 Eriksen, Pål Egil
2010-2014
NTNU
A Rotor wake turbulence
9 Frøyd, Lars
2009-2012
4Subsea
A Wind Turbine Design: Evaluation of
Dynamic Loads on Large Offshore Wind
Turbines
10 Hameed, Zafar
2009-2012
Rolls Royce
B Maintenance optimization of wind
farms from design to operation (models,
methods, framework)