PhD Scholarship: Seabed response to mooring lines for floating offshore wind

This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience, a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The project focuses on developing a new computational model to simulate seabed-mooring interaction at the particle scale for floating offshore wind turbines. The research will combine the Discrete Element Method (DEM) with a lattice-based fluid solver to examine how sediments rearrange, lose strength, and generate excess pore pressures under cyclic loading. The successful applicant will undertake six months of training with the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at the University of Sheffield. The scholarship provides comprehensive training in computational geomechanics, high-performance simulation, and offshore wind engineering, preparing candidates to address critical challenges in mooring system design for the offshore wind sector.