29th

— 30th

August 2019 | Glasgow, UK

Call for Papers Abstract Deadline: 20th March 2019

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4th International Conference on

Offshore Renewable Energy CORE 2019

CORE 2019

About the Conference Running for the forth time, CORE 2019 is the only technical conference on offshore renewable energy in Scotland, a fitting lo-

cation, considering that is where most of the UK's offshore wind energy recourses are concentrated.

This conference will offer delegates an unparalleled opportunity to network with researchers, technology developers, industrial

players, and supply chain partners. It will address the latest developments and strategies in offshore renewable energy, poten-

tial investors from public funds and government support funding, wave and tidal energy resources,

One of the aims of this conference is to create a framework for knowledge sharing and to develop a roadmap for research ac-

tivities in the context of offshore renewable energy that are a relatively new and challenging field of interest. In particular, the

conference will enable research activities leading towards innovative, cost efficient and environmentally benign offshore renew-

able energy conversion platforms for wind and wave energy resources.

Organising Committee

Professor Purnendu Das ASRANet Ltd, UK

Conference Themes • Wave and tidal energy

resource

• Offshore wind Power

• Technological develop-

ments

• Mitigating risk on the

road to commercialisa-

tion

• Monitoring, operation

and maintenance of

wind farms

• Technology manage-

ment assessment of

marine renewable ener-

gy

• Developing a commer-

cial scale tidal energy

array

• Latest Development of

large-scale Offshore

Wind Turbine

• Device development

and testing – tidal

• Developing a viable

ocean energy supply

chain

• Rules, regulations and

recent policy develop-

ments

• Innovation and Recent

Projects in the

• Offshore Renewable

Energy sector

Registration Fees

Full Registration:

Student Registration:

£400

£200

The themes given here are indicative

Key Dates

Abstract Deadline 29th March 2019 Abstract Acceptance 29th April 2019

Full Payment 29th June 2019 Full Paper Submission: 20th July 2019

Abstract to be maximum of 300 words. Abstract/Paper format is available here

All the papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings with an ISBN number and deposited in the British Library

Technical Advisory Panel

Dr Mahmood Shafee Cranfield University, UK

Dr Sasa Djokic University of Edinburgh UK

Dr Wenxian Yang Newcastle University UK

Prof Zhen Gao NTNU Norway

Dr R V Ahilan LOC Group Ltd UK

Mr Peter Jamieson, University of Strathclyde, UK

Dr Madjid Karimirad Queens University Belfast

Dr Jimmy Murphy, University of Cork, UCC, Ireland

Mr Ben Smith, ATKINS Global UK

Dr Vikram Pakrashi, University of Dublin UCD, Ireland

Prof Reinhard Madlener, RWTH AACHEN University, Ger-

many

Mr René Lindeboom, MARIN, Netherlands

Dr Stuart Bradley, Catapult, UK

Dr Rajesh Katyal, NIWE, India

Prof Nilanjan Saha, IITM, India

Dr Musa Bashir, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Keynote Speakers

Dr Lars Johanning, University of Exeter, UK

Invited Speakers

Dr Domenico Lombardi, University of Manchester, UK

Dr Maurizio Collu, University of Strathclyde, UK

Dr Peter Clive, Wood, UK

Dr Vesna Jaksic, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland

Mr Ben J Smith, Atkins Global, UK

Dr Fuat Kara, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Prof Reinhard Madlener, RWTH AACHEN University, Germany

Dr. Cian Desmond , University College Cork , UK

ABOUT KEYNOTE/INVITED SPEAKERS

Prof Lars Johanning, University of Exeter

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Professor Johanning is a leading researcher with international recognition in the field of ocean energy and technology with a focus to-

wards hydrodynamics and mooring systems. His research include activities such as loading and dynamic response of mono-towers in

steep and breaking waves (GR/N04522/01) and hydrodynamic studies on station keeping principles for marine renewable devices

within SuperGen UKCMER (GR/S26958/01), hydrodynamic analysis to support development of aquaculture systems (BB/

M005208/1). I’m a Co-I on the Supergen-Marine (UKCMER) grant (EP/M014738/1), addressing mooring and reliability for MRE devic-

es. Prof Johanning has led the development of the Falmouth Bay marine energy test site, which has seen the successful deployment of

the Fred Olsen and Polygen wave energy devices.

He advised the ORE Catapult as member of the Research Advisory Group (RAG), provides expert advice within the Mooring Standards

Committee to the IEC/TC114 and provided the technical lead in the development of the EU Ocean Energy Strategic Roadmap (2016)

within the Ocean Energy Secretariat. He has extensive international experience, including over four years working on ORE technologies

in China, holding a Visiting Scholar at Dalian University of Technology; and recently received funding to lead the development of resili-

ent concept designs for floating offshore wind applications as part of the EPSRC/NSCF ORE UK-China call that includes Chinese project

partners form Dalian University of Technology and Zheijang University.

Dr Domenico Lombardi, University of Manchester

Dr Maurizio Collu, University of Strathclyde Offshore multi-purpose platforms: finding sustainable synergies among offshore industries

Maurizio is an Internationally leading expert in offshore floating wind systems, focusing on their design and on their coupled dynamics

modelling - currently managing 1.1m£ worth of research in this area. He leads one of the five EPSRC Joint UK-China Offshore Renewable

Energy flagship projects, INNO-MPP, amongst other offshore renewable energy project funded by the UK research council and the EU -

this project focus on the development of offshore, multi-purpose platform.He sits on several international committees, including the ITTC

Specialist Committee on Hydrodynamic Modelling of Marine Renewable Energy Devices and the OMAE Ocean Renewable Energy tech-

nical committee.

Dr Peter Clive, Wood,

Peter has been associated with the wind power industry since taking his PhD in physics in 2002. He has had a central role in the

development of the Galion Lidar, the 2nd generation wind Lidar system. This system enables wind fields to be surveyed with previ-

ously unobtainable detail and precision, revealing flow characteristics and structures that have a significant impact on the productiv-

ity and longevity of wind power assets. Peter also pioneered the introduction of response deficit analysis into wind turbine perfor-

mance assessment, allowing the expertise and experience of wind analysts to be leveraged in the most focused and cost effective

manner. His interests also include innovative resource assessment techniques that extract all the available information from the

long and short term datasets from target and reference sites, minimizing project uncertainty and boosting project value. Peter has

Dynamic soil–structure interaction of monopile supported wind turbines in cohesive soil

Domenico Lombardi is a lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering, leader of the Civil Engineering Teaching Group, and Deputy Director of Research of the School of Mechanical Aerospace and Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester. His main research interests are in geotechnics and structural dynamics, related to problems of offshore and earthquake engineering. Domenico is author of over 30 publications focusing on different civil engineering problems, including long-term performance of offshore wind turbines and design of pile-supported structures in liq-uefiable soils. Domenico has recently co-authored a textbook titled “Seismic Design of Foundations”, published by ICE Publishing.

The decarbonisation of global shipping

Optimization approaches for Offshore Renewable Energy Applications

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Ben Smith is a Chartered Naval Architect with experience in the design of both fixed and floating offshore structures and holds a MEng

in Ship Science / Naval Architecture from Southampton University. He has been involved in design projects at all stages from concept

through FEED / detailed design and into construction; initially in the Oil and Gas industry but most recently in the Offshore Renewables

industry. He has been involved in a number of the UKs most pioneering offshore wind projects but has a particular specialism in float-

ing wind having been involved in a number of the UKs most ground-breaking floating wind projects. He currently shares experience

gained at the fore-

Going into deep water: the answer is…...

Mr Ben J Smith, Atkins Global, UK

Dr Fuat Kara, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Time domain prediction of first- and second-order wave forces on rigid and elastic floating bodies

Dr Kara is a Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering (Engineering Dynamics) and Course Director of Mechanical Engineering at

Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). Before joining with SHU, he was a Senior Lecturer in Marine Hydrodynamics at Cranfield University.

He has BSc and MSc in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey and PhD in Marine Hy-

drodynamics & Hydroelasticity from University of Strathclyde, UK. Dr Kara has developed over twenty years advanced state-of-the-art

transient free-surface three-dimensional direct time domain computational code (ITU-WAVE) in numerical marine hydrodynamics and

aerodynamics & hydroelasticity and aeroelasticity. He has research interest in fluid-structure interaction focusing on fixed or floating

mono- and multi-hulls including rigid and elastic ships with and without forward speed; offshore structures; isolated and array wave

energy converters with control strategies; mooring analysis; floating offshore wind turbines; subsea and pipeline engineering. He was

Programme/Course Director of Offshore and Ocean Technology MSc courses with six courses; Diving Science and Underwater Tech-

nology; Offshore Materials Engineering; Offshore Renewable Energy; Pipeline Engineering; Risk Management and Subsea Engineering

in 2008-2015 at Cranfield University. He has contributed to many European Union (EU), the UK Industry and Royal Academy of Engi-

neering projects as a PI or Co-I whilst acts as a reviewer for Research Council UK proposals and different journals and conferences.

Dr Vesna Jaksic, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Tidal blade design and testing

Dr. Vesna Jaksic is a Civil Engineer specialising in design, testing, and monitoring of structures. She got her BSc and MSc degrees in

Structural Engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia. She obtained a MSc in Environmental Engi-

neering, and a PhD in Structural Dynamics at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University College Cork (UCC).

Vesna has worked in the civil engineering sector, in both industry and academia. She participated in or co-ordinated several EU pro-

jects (FloTEC, MARINCOMP, TU1406, LEANWIND, CELTICFLUX, etc). In 2014, Vesna was awarded an SFI Advance Award for her work

in the application of composite materials to offshore renewable marine structures. She has collaborated with universities in Ireland

and abroad, and with multiple industry partners. Before joining Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) she was a Senior Post-Doctoral

researcher in the MaREI centre at UCC, where she contributed to the ‘MRE Technologies’ and ‘Materials and Structure’ Research

Divisions. Vesna was a visiting researcher at at the Institute of Materials and Processes, University of Edinburgh, SMEs Eir Compo-

sites Teo., and ScotRenewables Tidal Power Ltd., where she worked on the novel structural design of the wind and tidal turbine

blades using advanced composites. Currently, Vesna is a lecturer in Civil, Structural and Environmental Department at CIT and visit-

ing professor at the School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK. Also, she continues her research work on novel MRE technol-

ogies, materials and structures. Vesna is the member of the Sustainable Infrastructure Research & Innovation Group (SIRIG)

at Civil, Structural and Environmental Department at CIT and MaREI Materials and Structures Group.

Dr Reinhard Madlener, RWTH AACHEN University, Germany Prof. Dr. Reinhard Madlener is a full professor of energy economics and management at the School of Business and Economics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. His main research interests, on which he has published extensively over the last 25 years, are in the fields of energy economics and policy, sustainable energy systems, as well as the adoption, temporal and spatial diffusion, and financing of innovative energy technologies under uncertainty. The teaching activities of Professor Madlener are mainly in energy economics, environmental and resource economics, economics of technological diffusion, economics of tech-nical change, and public choice.

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Dr. Cian Desmond is a Research Fellow in the Science Foundation Ireland funded Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy, University

College Cork (UCC). He represents UCC on the board of the European Academy of Wind Energy and the European Energy Research Alli-

ance Joint Program in Wind Energy. He holds a PhD in Wind Resource Assessment and a Masters in Renewable Energy Systems Tech-

nology, both from Loughborough University. Currently he is working primarily on the Interreg Funded ARCWIND and the H2020 funded

MaRINET2 projects where the focus of his research is the physical testing of floating wind energy platforms. He is also Principal Investi-

gator on an Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland (SEAI) funded project, which seeks to produce software which will support the develop-

ment of community renewable energy projects.

Physical testing of floating wind energy platforms

Cian Desmond, University College Cork

Sponsorship & Exhibition Space

Sponsorship

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• Company Logo in the Conference Programme

• Company Logo in the Book of Abstracts

• Company advert in the Book of Abstract (A4 Size)

• Advert in the Conference Proceedings (USB)

Exhibition

Cost £1200 + VAT

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• Display material: Published material, Structural component

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Sponsorship Package + Exhibition Package

Cost £2100 + VAT

• 2 Free Delegate Registrations

• 1 Display Table (1800 x 1200 mm) in Breakout Area

• Display Material: Published Material, Structural Component

• Display Banners

• Company Logo in the Conference Programme

• Company Logo & Advert in the Book of Abstracts (A4 Size)

• Advert in the Conference Proceedings (USB)

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About Glasgow

Glasgow has been named as one of the top 20 'Best of the World' destinations for 2016 by influential pub-

lication National Geographic Traveler, the city has also been voted the ‘friendliest city in the world’ in a

Rough Guides poll and named a must visit destination by leading publications like the New York Times,

The Guardian and Wanderlust! Earning its reputation as one of the world’s greatest cities, you can expect a

very warm welcome and when you add world-class architecture, a vibrant nightlife, breath taking scenery

and out-standing shopping, you’ll never want to leave! One of beauties of Glasgow is its compact size -

you can see a lot of the city in a remarkably short space of time. It also has some very distinct neighbour-

hoods. If you’re looking for the perfect place to people-watch, head for the trendy West End. Its up and

coming rival is the emerging ‘Cool Quarter’ of Finnieston, which is buzzing with bars and independent

shops. If you love the energy of a flea market, pay a visit to ‘The Barras’ (Glaswegian dialect for "barrow"),

in the East End. Or head over the river to the city’s South Side, where the sprawling Pollok Park offers a

woodland oasis, as well as the world-renowned Burrell Collection, with its fascinating range of art exhibits.

Further afield, ancient castles, picture-postcard distilleries, tranquil lochs, outstanding golf courses and

miles of unspoilt coastline are all just a short journey from the city centre - incredibly, you can get to Loch

Lomond, gateway to the Scottish Highlands in only 30 minutes. The capital of Scotland, Edinburgh is only

50 minutes far by train.

Getting Here

Airport Connections

Glasgow is well connected globally by Glasgow International Airport through Emirates, KLM, Air France,

Easyjet, Ryanair and many more. The airport is currently linked to Glasgow City Centre by Glasgow Shuttle

bus service 500. This is run by First Glasgow under contract to Glasgow Airport. The service runs 24 hours a

day, direct via the M8 motorway.

Train Connections

Fast trains run into the centre of Glasgow terminating at Glasgow Central. The train service from London,

Manchester, Newcastle terminate at Glasgow Central or at Glasgow Queens Street with connections

through Edinburgh Waverley.

Accommodation With over 18,000 bedrooms in the Greater Glasgow area, and almost 7,000 in the city centre alone, you’re

guaranteed to find accommodation which suits your taste and budget! Whether your style is a luxury hotel

retreat, a vibrant hostel, homely B&B or a comfortable city centre apartment, you can be assured of a

warm Glaswegian welcome. Below are a list of hotels close to the conference venue

Mercure Glasgow City From £48

The Brunswick Hotel From £60

Holiday Inn City Centre From £50

The Grand Central Hotel From £43

DoubleTree By Hilton Glasgow Central (formerly The Glasgow City Hotel)

From £40

Premier Inn George Square From £60

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