Thesis proposals
| TEST TYPE | TOPIC | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | ADVISOR/REFERENCE | CONTACT PROFESSOR | NOTES | ATTACHED |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tesi Triennale | Wind | Resource assessment | The purpose of the thesis is to analyze the meteorological wave and wind data for an offshore site off the island Pantelleria. The aim is to estimate the wind productivity of the site and to understand the feasibility of floating offshore wind projects | alberto.ghigo@polito.it emilio.faraggiana@polito.it massimo.sirigu@polito.it | giovanni.bracco@polito.it | Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering | |
| Tesi Triennale | Wind | Hybrid platforms | The thesis expects a bibliographic analysis of the main types of hybrid platforms wind&wave already built or in experimental phase. It is required to define and to implement cost functions of the platforms, which a focus on wind and wave integration | alberto.ghigo@polito.it emilio.faraggiana@polito.it massimo.sirigu@polito.it | giovanni.bracco@polito.it | Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering | |
| Tesi Triennale | Wind | Life Cycle Assessment | The aim of the thesis is to describe the Life Cycle Assessment of a wind turbine, focusing in particular on the device dismantling and the recycling problem of blades | alberto.ghigo@polito.it emilio.faraggiana@polito.it massimo.sirigu@polito.it | giovanni.bracco@polito.it | Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering | |
| Tesi Triennale | Wind | Experimental tests of wind turbine | The thesis includes a bibliographic analysis of the main experimental methods of Floating Wind Turbine in a test tank focusing mainly on the different types of tests (free decay, wave, wind & wave) and on the necessary equipment (such as sensors, fans,etc.) | alberto.ghigo@polito.it emilio.faraggiana@polito.it massimo.sirigu@polito.it | giovanni.bracco@polito.it | Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering | |
| Tesi Triennale | Wind | Wake analysis | Describe the problem of wakes in a wind farm: what are the consequences in terms of productivity? How are losses estimated ? What are the most common layout solutions to overcome this problem? | alberto.ghigo@polito.it emilio.faraggiana@polito.it massimo.sirigu@polito.it | giovanni.bracco@polito.it | Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering | |
| Tesi Triennale | Wind | Wind turbine blades | The purpose of the thesis is to make an analysis of the main manifacturing methods of the blades of a wind turbine, focusing in particular on the materials used and the latest innovations introduced | alberto.ghigo@polito.it emilio.faraggiana@polito.it massimo.sirigu@polito.it | giovanni.bracco@polito.it | Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering | |
| Master thesis | Wave | Thesis 1 in/with Mondragón University | Local Marine Renewable Energy Resource Assessment via bias correction of climate re-analysis datasets See Attachment | mpenalba@mondragon.edu giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it | mpenalba@mondragon.edu giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it | Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering | Mondragon-Penalba-P1 |
| Master thesis | Wave | Thesis 2 in/with Mondragón University | Structural integrity of Marine Renewable Energy Devices: Extreme loading See Attachment | mpenalba@mondragon.edu giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it | mpenalba@mondragon.edu giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it | Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering | Mondragon-Penalba-P2 |
| Master thesis | Wave | Thesis 3 in/with Mondragón University | Structural integrity of Marine Renewable Energy Devices: Fatigue effects See Attachment | mpenalba@mondragon.edu giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it | mpenalba@mondragon.edu giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it | Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering | Mondragon-Penalba-P3 |
| Master thesis | Wave | Thesis 4 in/with Mondragón University | Wave Energy Converter Array Modelling via Harmonic Balance Methods See Attachment | mpenalba@mondragon.edu giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it | mpenalba@mondragon.edu giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it | Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering | Mondragon-Penalba-P4 |
| Master thesis | Wave | Thesis 5 in/with Mondragón University | Hidro-Aerolaestic Modelling for +10 MW floating Offshore wind turbines: Evaluation of Uncertainties in wind turbulence intensity See Attachment | mpenalba@mondragon.edu giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it | mpenalba@mondragon.edu giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it | Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering | Mondragon-Penalba-P5 |
| Master thesis | Wave | Thesis 6 in/with Mondragón University | Design of a health-informed hidro-aeroelastic model for Offshore wind turbines: Impact of blade erosion, gearbox and electrical generator faults See Attachment | mpenalba@mondragon.edu giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it | mpenalba@mondragon.edu giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it | Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering | Mondragon-Penalba-P6 |
| Master thesis | Wave | Thesis 9 in/with Mondragón University | Nonlinear Hydrodynamic Modelling for the SparBuoy See Attachment | mpenalba@mondragon.edu giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it | mpenalba@mondragon.edu giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it | Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering | GIORGI - Code-to-Code Nonlinear Hydrodynamic Modelling verification for WECs - WEC-Sim vs. NLFK4ALL - 2021 |
| Master thesis | Electric boat | Genetic optimization of hull and 2D air-hydro-foil profiles for a raceboat | Hydrodynamic and optimization | mauro.bonfanti@polito.it | mauro.bonfanti@polito.it | Aerospace Engineering | electric_boat_T1 |
| Master thesis | Electric boat | Developing a static and dynamic Velocity Prediction Programm (VPP) for a zero emission raceboat | Nonlinear dynamics and optimization | mauro.bonfanti@polito.it | mauro.bonfanti@polito.it | Aerospace Engineering | electric_boat_T1 |
| Triennale/Master | Software | Pipeline beetween a computational fluid dynamics software and Simulink for multiphysic simulation | software coupling for multiphysic simulation | pietro.casalone@polito.it | giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it | Informatic Engineering | Pipeline beetween a computational fluid dynamic software and Simulink for multiphysic simulation |
| Master thesis | Wave | High-fidelity Numerical Modelling of a Wave Energy Converter | Development of a numerical parametric wave tank for WECs in OpenFOAM | beatrice.battisti@polito.it | giuliana.mattiazzo@polito.it | Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering | CFD_thesis_OF |
| Master thesis | Wave | Fractional-order modelling of Wave Energy Converters | Thesis in Ireland, Maynooth University, at the Centre for Ocean energy Research | giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it | sergej.sirigu@polito.it edoardo.pasta@polito.it | Mathematical Engineering Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering | MORE-COER internship - 1 |
| Master thesis | Wave | Interpolation-based strategies for the assisted computation of frequency-domain hydrodynamic coefficients in WEC systems | Thesis in Ireland, Maynooth University, at the Centre for Ocean energy Research | sergej.sirigu@polito.it | mauro.bonfanti@polito.it edoardo.pasta@polito.it | Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering | MORE-COER internship - 2 |
| Master thesis | Wave | Development of a predictor for relative foil/fluid velocity | Thesis in Ireland, Maynooth University, at the Centre for Ocean energy Research | mauro.bonfanti@polito.it | giuliana.mattiazzo@polito.it edoardo.pasta@polito.it | Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering | MORE-COER internship - 3 |
| Master thesis | Wind/Wave | Coordinated control of combined offshore wind/wave systems | Thesis in Ireland, Maynooth University, at the Centre for Ocean energy Research | giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it | giovanni.bracco@polito.it edoardo.pasta@polito.it | Control Engineering Mechatronics Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering | MORE-COER internship - 4<>/a |
| Master thesis | Wave | Dynamic simulation of an innovative wave energy converter, based on gyroscopic effects | Development of a numerical model of the electro-mechanical conversion system, using Matlab and/or SimMechanics and/or WEC-Sim. Analysis of the productivity and parametric optimization of the most important features of the device. | giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it sergej.sirigu@polito.it | giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it sergej.sirigu@polito.it | Mechatronics Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering | |
| Master thesis, funded internship | Wave | RECURSIVE ESTIMATION OF OCEAN WAVE SPECTRA | Thesis in France | alexis.merigaud@ifpen.fr paolino.tona@ifpen.fr | giuseppe.giorgi@polito.it | Mathematical Engineering Control Engineering Mechatronics Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering | Internship at IFPEN - Estimation of wave spectra |