Engineering and Design of Environments

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Research Unit for the
Engineering and Design of Environments
Research Team Jun Zang Andrew Heath Gerald
Morgan. Contact at J.Zang_at_bath.ac.uk Research
Projects Coastal flooding erosion Jointly
funded by GWR, Edenvale Young Associates, and
University of Bath, to develop a methodology and
an assess model for predicting the performance
and reliability of existing coastal defences due
to climate Change (in collaboration with
University of Plymouth). Offshore wind
energy Funded by EPSRC, RAE to investigate
non- linear wave loads and wave hydrodynamic
effects on offshore wind turbine foundations.
Offshore wave energy Jointly funded by GWR and
Embley Energy, to develop a numerical model for
simulating wave hydrodynamic performance of wave
energy converters (Case study the SPERBOYTM WEC
in collaboration with University of Plymouth).



Predicted and measured wave spectra
Sponsors Great Western Research EPSRC
Royal Academy of Engineering Edenvale Young
Associates Embley Energy Ltd University of
Bath.
Responding to the Climate Change at Coast and Sea
EDE
Engineering and Design of Environments