Research

Structural dynamics and control of offshore structures.

Core doctoral research

PhD / Doctorat de Mécanique
Dec. 2024–2027 expected

Doctoral research

Active vibration control of jacket-supported offshore wind turbine structures.

My doctoral research focuses on the dynamic response and active vibration control of jacket-supported offshore wind turbines, combining reduced-order modelling, finite-element analysis and a partitioned coupled simulation framework.

Research environment: Laboratoire de Mécanique de Normandie (LMN)
INSA Rouen Normandie
Supervision: Didier Lemosse · Younes Aoues

Official thesis titleAtténuation des vibrations d'une fondation, de type jacket, d'une éolienne marine par amortissement actif.

The work develops structural finite-element models and a partitioned ANSYS–MATLAB coupled simulation framework for the NREL 5 MW reference offshore wind turbine with an OC4 jacket substructure.

Active control is investigated using a Twin Rotor Damper and discrete LQR control, combining reduced-order models for controller development with full-order transient structural simulations.

Research structure

Work at different stages of maturity.

The programme separates established doctoral work, current developments and completed prior research.

Core doctoral research

Structural dynamics & active vibration control

Structural response, reduced-order modelling, Twin Rotor Damper concepts, discrete LQR control and full-order transient analysis.

Offshore structural response

Environmental loading and response evaluation within the NREL 5 MW and OC4 jacket research framework.

Current development

Fatigue, reliability & surrogate modelling

Developing work toward structural fatigue, reliability-oriented analysis and Gaussian Process / Kriging methods for computationally intensive simulations.

Previous research

Fluid–structure interaction

A completed six-month research internship at LOMC, Université Le Havre Normandie, studied wave loading and wave–mast interaction at the Fécamp offshore wind turbine mast using OpenFOAM-based numerical modelling.

Completed · Mar.–Sep. 2024

Interactive study

Dynamic Response Explorer

Explore tower-top displacement in the horizontal plane for the same offshore loading case, comparing the Uncontrolled and Controlled responses.

Open the explorer

Research methods

Computational mechanics across model scales.

Scientific computing
ANSYS APDL · MATLAB · Python · OpenFAST · OpenFOAM · Simulink

Structural practice
ETABS · SAP2000 · CSI Bridge · AutoCAD