The proposed project is structured in five work packages (WP), with an overview outlined below:

1. WP1 – Environmental climate conditions modelling and evaluation: (Lead: Vengatesan Venugopal from the University of Edinburgh; Contribute: University of Exeter, University of Bath, Dalian University of Technology, Zhejiang University).

This WP will summarise and compare the key environmental parameters for the engineering design of ORE structures to provide the required data for robust structural designs (WP2), a coupled aero-hydro-servo-elastic numerical model (WP3) and fundamental variables for the resilience valuation of ORE systems (WP4).

• Task WP1.1 Hindcasting of wave and current conditions for key Chinese sites in the south-east coast and nearby islands: Shanghai and the provinces of Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan
• Task WP1.2 Simulation of wave by wave components to evaluate short term design parameters
• Task WP1.3 Site-specific fatigue and extreme wave estimation by numerical wave simulation
• Task WP1.4 Assessment of Typhoon wave conditions for the design of FOW turbines

1. WP2 – Resilient design innovations: (Lead: Dezhi Ning from the Dalian University of Technology; Contribute: University of Exeter, University of Edinburgh, Zhejiang University).

This WP will assess innovative design solutions to enhance coupled response characteristics, providing a resilient design in operation and extreme conditions.

• Task WP2.1 Porous platform design:
• Task WP2.2 Damping effect of OWC device to dynamic response of platform
• Task WP2.3 Mooring design
• Task WP2.4 Experimental validation
• WP3 – Coupled interactive computational modelling (Lead: Jun Zang from the University of Bath; Contribute: University of Exeter, University of Edinburgh, Dalian University of Technology, Zhejiang University)

The work proposed here will use the expertise within the consortium to advance and validate computational models.

• Task WP3.1 Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solver
• Task WP3.2 Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method
• Task WP3.3 Coupled solver

1. WP4 – Resilience approach centred on a risk based design methodology (Lead: Philipp Thies from the University of Exeter; Contribute: University of Edinburgh, University of Bath, Dalian University of Technology)

This WP will assess the increased resilience of FOW systems if innovative load mitigating measures are integrated into the design.

• Task WP4.1 Reliability-based structural design
• Task WP 4.2 Development of design optimisation workflows

1. WP5 – Knowledge Exchange and stakeholder engagement (Lead: Lars Johanning from the University of Exeter; Contribute: Dalian University of Technology, University of Edinburgh, University of Bath, Zhejiang University)

The activities of this project will be directly build into a ‘Research Bridge’ using the outcomes to exchanging the knowledge into the other themes, whilst using the bridge to inform the activities within this project to enable a joined-up interdisciplinary and international programme of work.

• Task WP5.1 Knowledge Exchange
• Task WP5.2 Industry Forum workshops