Speaker: Professor Peter Stansby

Peter graduated with a BA in Engineering from Cambridge University in 1971, and a PhD in aerodynamics three years later. His working life began in industry with the Atkins Group.

In 1980 he joined the University of Manchester where he was awarded a DSc. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering since 2001. His research interests have focused on offshore structures, coastal engineering, marine energy (wave, wind and tidal), with computational modelling and experimental investigation. He is now the Osborne Reynolds Professor of Fluid Mechanics at Manchester.

Synopsis

ORE (Offshore Renewable Energy) covers wind, tidal stream and wave energy and there is considerable activity at Manchester. In this talk the main successes, challenges and blockages will be outlined. Research is a mixture of computational modelling, laboratory experiments and ocean trials and examples will be presented. The picture shows ocean wave energy testing in Australia of the Manchester M4 device.