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  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

Deborah Greaves is affiliated with Plymouth University in the United Kingdom and has a significant body of research primarily focused on engineering and earth and planetary sciences. The subfields of their work include ocean engineering, computational mechanics, earth-surface processes, aerospace engineering, and oceanography.

Their research encompasses topics related to wave and wind energy systems, coastal and marine dynamics, fluid dynamics and vibration analysis, fluid dynamics simulations and interactions, wind energy research and development, ocean waves and remote sensing, and marine and offshore engineering studies.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Ocean Engineering
  • Renewable Energy
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Applied Ocean Research
  • Applied Energy

Deborah Greaves has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, notably:

  • Martyn Hann
  • Siming Zheng
  • Edward Ransley
  • Scott Brown
  • Siya Jin

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Deborah Greaves include:

  • Evolution of floating offshore wind platforms: A review of at-sea devices, 2023, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Wave energy in the UK: Status review and future perspectives, 2021, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • A review of the UK and British Channel Islands practical tidal stream energy resource, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Hydroelastic interaction between water waves and an array of circular floating porous elastic plates, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Water-wave interaction with submerged porous elastic disks, 2020, Physics of Fluids

Deborah Greaves was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • A review of combined wave and offshore wind energy

    C. Pérez-Collazo;D. Greaves;G. Iglesias

  • Air–water two-phase flow modelling of hydrodynamic performance of an oscillating water column device

    Yali Zhang;Qing Ping Zou;Deborah Greaves

  • Wave power extraction from multiple oscillating water columns along a straight coast

    Siming Zheng;Alessandro Antonini;Yongliang Zhang;Deborah Greaves

  • Numerical wave tank study of extreme waves and wave-structure interaction using OpenFoam®

    Zheng Zheng Hu;Deborah Greaves;Alison Raby

  • Wave farm impact on the beach profile: A case study

    J. Abanades;D. Greaves;G. Iglesias

  • Survivability of wave energy converters using CFD

    EJ Ransley;DM Greaves;A Raby;D Simmonds

  • Wave energy in the UK: Status review and future perspectives

    Siya Jin;Deborah Greaves

  • Evaluation of turbulence closure models under spilling and plunging breakers in the surf zone

    S.A. Brown;D.M. Greaves;V. Magar;D.C. Conley

  • Experimental investigation of different geometries of fixed oscillating water column devices

    Thomas Vyzikas;Samy Deshoulières;Matthew Barton;Olivier Giroux

  • Hierarchical tree-based finite element mesh generation

    DM Greaves;Alistair Borthwick

  • Coastal defence through wave farms

    J. Abanades;D. Greaves;G. Iglesias

  • Methodology for tidal turbine representation in ocean circulation model

    Thomas Roc;Daniel C. Conley;Deborah Greaves

  • Focused waves and wave-structure interaction in a numerical wave tank

    J Westphalen;D M Greaves;C J K Williams;A C Hunt-Raby

  • The effect of viscosity on the transient free-surface waves in a two-dimensional tank

    G.X. Wu;R. Eatock Taylor;D.M. Greaves

  • Hydrodynamic response of the WEC sub-system of a novel hybrid wind-wave energy converter

    C. Perez-Collazo;D. Greaves;G. Iglesias

  • A review of the UK and British Channel Islands practical tidal stream energy resource

    Daniel Coles;Athanasios Angeloudis;Deborah Greaves;Gordon Hastie

  • Rogue waves in opposing currents: an experimental study on deterministic and stochastic wave trains

    A Toffoli;T Waseda;H Houtani;L Cavaleri

  • RANS-VOF modelling of the Wavestar point absorber

    E. J. Ransley;D. M. Greaves;A. Raby;D. Simmonds

  • Coastal defence using wave farms: The role of farm-to-coast distance

    J. Abanades;D. Greaves;G. Iglesias

  • Numerical study of fixed Oscillating Water Column with RANS-type two-phase CFD model

    Thomas Vyzikas;Samy Deshoulières;Olivier Giroux;Matthew Barton

  • Simulation of viscous water column collapse using adapting hierarchical grids

    Deborah M. Greaves

  • Environmental Impact Assessments for wave energy developments – Learning from existing activities and informing future research priorities

    Ruth H. Leeney;Deborah Greaves;Daniel Conley;Anne Marie O'Hagan

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregorio Iglesias
Gregorio Iglesias University College Cork
Matthew J. Witt
Matthew J. Witt University of Exeter
Lars Johanning
Lars Johanning University of Exeter
Brendan J. Godley
Brendan J. Godley University of Exeter
G. X. Wu
G. X. Wu University College London
John V. Ringwood
John V. Ringwood National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Dominic E. Reeve
Dominic E. Reeve Swansea University
Alistair G.L. Borthwick
Alistair G.L. Borthwick University of Edinburgh
Peter Stansby
Peter Stansby University of Manchester
Paul Russell
Paul Russell Plymouth University

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