Special Journal Issue on Risk and Uncertainties in Offshore Wind, Wave, and Tidal Energy Systems
Special Journal Issue on Risk and Uncertainties in Offshore Wind, Wave, and Tidal Energy Systems
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The ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering is currently accepting manuscripts for a special issue focusing on the topic “Risk and Uncertainties in Offshore Wind, Wave, and Tidal Energy Systems.” Authors who are interested in having their manuscripts included in the special issue, to be published in Summer 2021, should submit their manuscripts by September 30, 2020.
Offshore wind, wave, and tidal energy systems are proving to be key technologies driving the promotion of renewable energy and the related achievement of renewable energy targets throughout the world. The number of papers on this topic has increased significantly in the last decade. Despite this interest, the majority of papers seem to concentrate on the maximization of energy, design, and, recently, on the maintenance aspects. This is natural as the levelized cost of electricity in the market is directly influenced by the capital expenditure and the operational expenditure.
There remain significant challenges around these technologies related to: Uncertainties in the structural responses of renewable energy devices (from loading and materials); Uncertainties and variabilities of availability of renewable energy resources; as well as Uncertainties and variations around efficient inspection, testing, monitoring, maintenance, and management of these infrastructure systems.
Statistical and probabilistic methods are closely related to addressing all these challenges.
Contributions to this special issue can be theoretical or experimental, and can relate to offshore wind, wave, tidal or combined solutions. It is envisaged that the special issue will address a major area in the topic of renewable energy that is usually overlooked as an overall focus.
Manuscripts to be included in the special issue should concentrate on a range of topics including novel design of offshore wind, wave, tidal, or combined solutions; modeling of dynamic responses; testing of scaled or full-scale systems including laboratory based or flume/ocean wave basin tests; modeling and characterization of wind and/or wave energy availability and variation; estimation of exposure conditions of wind, wave, tidal, or combined offshore renewable energy solutions; extreme value statistics; system identification and monitoring; estimates of effects of climate change and variability; instrumentation, operations, and maintenance; reliability analysis; and array optimization.
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to the journal by September 30, 2020, via Journals Connect at journaltool.asme.org. Authors who have an account should log in and select “Submit Paper” at the bottom of the page. Authors without an account should select “Submissions” and follow the steps. At the Paper Submittal page, authors should select “ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering” and then select the special issue “Risk and Uncertainties in Offshore Wind, Wave, and Tidal Energy Systems (SI040B).” Assign the paper type as: Research Paper. The guest editors should be alerted prior to submission of all manuscripts via Journals Connect. Early submission before the deadline is strongly encouraged to promote early review and publication of this special issue.
The guest editors for the special issue are Vikram Pakrashi, University College Dublin, Ireland, vikram.pakrashi@ucd.ie; Jimmy Murphy, University College Cork, Ireland, jimmy.murphy@ucc.ie; and Budhaditya Hazra, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, budhaditya.hazra@iitg.ac.in.
For more information on the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering, visit https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/risk.To learn more about the ASME Journal Program, visit www.asme.org/publications-submissions/journals/information-for-authors.
Offshore wind, wave, and tidal energy systems are proving to be key technologies driving the promotion of renewable energy and the related achievement of renewable energy targets throughout the world. The number of papers on this topic has increased significantly in the last decade. Despite this interest, the majority of papers seem to concentrate on the maximization of energy, design, and, recently, on the maintenance aspects. This is natural as the levelized cost of electricity in the market is directly influenced by the capital expenditure and the operational expenditure.
There remain significant challenges around these technologies related to: Uncertainties in the structural responses of renewable energy devices (from loading and materials); Uncertainties and variabilities of availability of renewable energy resources; as well as Uncertainties and variations around efficient inspection, testing, monitoring, maintenance, and management of these infrastructure systems.
Statistical and probabilistic methods are closely related to addressing all these challenges.
Contributions to this special issue can be theoretical or experimental, and can relate to offshore wind, wave, tidal or combined solutions. It is envisaged that the special issue will address a major area in the topic of renewable energy that is usually overlooked as an overall focus.
Manuscripts to be included in the special issue should concentrate on a range of topics including novel design of offshore wind, wave, tidal, or combined solutions; modeling of dynamic responses; testing of scaled or full-scale systems including laboratory based or flume/ocean wave basin tests; modeling and characterization of wind and/or wave energy availability and variation; estimation of exposure conditions of wind, wave, tidal, or combined offshore renewable energy solutions; extreme value statistics; system identification and monitoring; estimates of effects of climate change and variability; instrumentation, operations, and maintenance; reliability analysis; and array optimization.
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to the journal by September 30, 2020, via Journals Connect at journaltool.asme.org. Authors who have an account should log in and select “Submit Paper” at the bottom of the page. Authors without an account should select “Submissions” and follow the steps. At the Paper Submittal page, authors should select “ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering” and then select the special issue “Risk and Uncertainties in Offshore Wind, Wave, and Tidal Energy Systems (SI040B).” Assign the paper type as: Research Paper. The guest editors should be alerted prior to submission of all manuscripts via Journals Connect. Early submission before the deadline is strongly encouraged to promote early review and publication of this special issue.
The guest editors for the special issue are Vikram Pakrashi, University College Dublin, Ireland, vikram.pakrashi@ucd.ie; Jimmy Murphy, University College Cork, Ireland, jimmy.murphy@ucc.ie; and Budhaditya Hazra, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, budhaditya.hazra@iitg.ac.in.
For more information on the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering, visit https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/risk.To learn more about the ASME Journal Program, visit www.asme.org/publications-submissions/journals/information-for-authors.
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