Erin Bachynski
Background and activities
Previous Education
Ph.D. Marine Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, March 2014. Thesis: Design and Dynamic Analysis of Tension Leg Platform Wind Turbines.
M.S. Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 2010. Thesis: Power Takeoff and Safety Considerations for a Tethered Point-Absorber Wave Energy Converter.
B.S.E. Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 2009. Minor: Mathematics.
Current Research
Design and analysis of offshore renewable energy devices: fixed and floating support structures for offshore wind turbines, hydroelasticity, global analysis, higher order wave loads.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2019) The effects of coherent structures on the global response of floating offshore wind turbines. Wind Energy. vol. 22 (2).
- (2019) Dynamic Response of A Large-Diameter Monopile Considering 35-Hour Storm Conditions. International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE) [proceedings].
- (2019) Dynamic response of a monopile wind turbine in waves: Experimental uncertainty analysis for validation of numerical tools. Applied Ocean Research. vol. 89.
- (2019) A semi-analytical frequency domain model for efficient design evaluation of spar floating wind turbines. Marine Structures. vol. 64.
- (2019) Fatigue sensitivity to foundation modelling in different operational states for the DTU 10MW monopile-based offshore wind turbine. Journal of Physics: Conference Series.
- (2019) Effect of axial acceleration on drivetrain responses in a spar-type floating wind turbine. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. vol. 141 (3).
- (2019) Modeling of a semisubmersible floating offshore wind platform in severe waves. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. vol. 141 (6).
- (2019) Wave disturbance rejection for monopile offshore wind turbines. Wind Energy. vol. 22 (1).
- (2019) Changes in surge and pitch decay periods of floating wind turbines for varying wind speed. Ocean Engineering. vol. 180.
- (2019) Effects of hull flexibility on the structural dynamics of a TLP floating wind turbine. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering.
- (2019) Analysis of wake effects on global responses for afloating two-turbine case. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. vol. 1356 (1).
- (2018) Computational Fluid Dynamics Reproduction of Nonlinear Loads on a Vertical Column during Extreme Irregular Wave Events. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. vol. 140 (6).
- (2018) Site-specific controller design for monopile offshore wind turbines. Marine Structures. vol. 61.
- (2018) Critical assessment of non-linear hydrodynamic load models for a fully flexible monopile offshore wind turbine. Ocean Engineering. vol. 164.
- (2017) Experimental and numerical investigations of monopile ringing in irregular finite-depth water waves. Applied Ocean Research. vol. 68.
- (2017) Sensitivity Analysis of Limited Actuation for Real-time Hybrid Model Testing of 5MW Bottom-fixed Offshore Wind Turbine. Energy Procedia. vol. 137.
- (2017) Experimental validation of a time-domain approach for determining sectional loads in a floating wind turbine hull subjected to moderate waves. Energy Procedia. vol. 137.
- (2017) Dynamic Responses of Jacket-Type Offshore Wind Turbines Using Decoupled and Coupled Models. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. vol. 139 (4).
- (2017) Experimental results of a multimode monopile offshore wind turbine support structure subjected to steep and breaking irregular waves. Ocean Engineering. vol. 146.
- (2017) Design and fatigue analysis of monopile foundations to support the DTU 10 MW offshore wind turbine. Energy Procedia. vol. 137.