Erin Bachynski-Polić
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.
Teaching
TMR4182 Marine dynamics
Integrated dynamic analysis of wind turbines (module within TMR4505)
Multidisciplinary design optimization (module within TMR4505)
Courses
- TMR4505 - Marine Structures, Specialization Course
- TMR4500 - Marine Structures, Specialization Project
- TMR4182 - Marine Dynamics
- TMR5950 - Wind Turbine Energy - Offshore Engineering, Master Thesis
- TMR4590 - Wind Turbine Energy - Offshore Engineering, Specialization Project
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
- (2022) Application of a lumping method for fatigue design of monopile-based wind turbines using fully coupled and simplified models. Applied Ocean Research. vol. 120.
- (2021) OC6 Phase II: Integration and verification of a new soil–structure interaction model for offshore wind design. Wind Energy.
- (2021) Effect of environmental modelling and inspection strategy on the optimal design of floating wind turbines. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. vol. 214.
- (2021) Experimental study on the effect of second order wavemaker theory on the response of a flexible large diameter monopile in irregular sea. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS). vol. 2018.
- (2021) Environmental lumping for efficient fatigue assessment of large-diameter monopile wind turbines. Marine Structures. vol. 77.
- (2021) A weak-scatterer potential flow theory-based model for the hydroelastic analysis of offshore wind turbine substructures. Ocean Engineering. vol. 238.
- (2021) Experimental and numerical investigation of nonlinear diffraction wave loads on a semi-submersible wind turbine. Renewable Energy. vol. 171.
- (2021) Analysis of difference-frequency wave loads and quadratic transfer functions on a restrained semi-submersible floating wind turbine. Ocean Engineering. vol. 232 (109165).
- (2021) Experimental and numerically obtained low-frequency radiation characteristics of the OC5-DeepCwind semisubmersible. Ocean Engineering. vol. 232 (109130).
- (2021) Validation and application of nonlinear hydrodynamics from CFD in an engineering model of a semi-submersible floating wind turbine. Marine Structures. vol. 79 (103054).
- (2021) OC6 Phase Ib: Validation of the CFD predictions of difference-frequency wave excitation on a FOWT semisubmersible. Ocean Engineering. vol. 241 (110026).
- (2021) Low-frequency dynamic wake meandering: comparison of FAST.Farm and DIWA software tools. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS). vol. 2018.
- (2021) A comparative study on the dynamic behaviour of 10 MW conventional and compact gearboxes for offshore wind turbines. Wind Energy. vol. 24 (7).
- (2020) Observations from hydrodynamic testing of a flexible, large-diameter monopile in irregular waves. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS). vol. 1669.
- (2020) Numerical modeling of the hydraulic blade pitch actuator in a spar‐type floating wind turbine considering fault conditions and their effects on global dynamic responses. Wind Energy. vol. 23 (2).
- (2020) Design Optimization of Spar Floating Wind Turbines Considering Different Control Strategies. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS). vol. 1669.
- (2020) Integrated design optimization of spar floating wind turbines. Marine Structures. vol. 72.
- (2020) Consequences of load mitigation control strategies for a floating wind turbine. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS). vol. 1669.
- (2020) Non-linear hydroelastic response of a monopile foundation in regular waves. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS). vol. 1669.
- (2020) Recent Advances in Integrated Response Analsysis of Floating Wind Turbines in a Reliability Perspective. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. vol. 142 (5).