The webinar of VIVIR project presented the models developed throughout the research

This project is led by Dr. Vincenzo Nava, BCAM researcher, and funded by Iberdrola Foundation

The webinar of the VIVIR project - Validation of a Method for Reducing Uncertainties in the Estimation of Remaining Life of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines mooring system was held on 15 July 2021, led by Vincenzo Nava, researcher at Tecnalia R&I and at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics - BCAM, leader of the project. The project was funded by the Iberdrola Foundation and it aims at reducing operating costs in offshore wind structures by developing, verifying and validating an artificial intelligence algorithm through data processing and physical modelling.

The aim of the event was to present the models developed in the project as part of the project validation task to representatives of different companies such as Tecnalia R&I, Nautilus FS, SAITEC, IDOM, Iberdrola, ScottishPower, CTC and entities such as the University of Mondragon and BCAM who attended the event. 

To this end, Dr Vincenzo Nava and Nicolás Gorostidi, an Early Stage Research Technician at BCAM, have developed an algorithm, based on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), for detecting failures of the mooring system of a simplified model of floating offshore wind turbine. The approach has shown to be promising and it has the main advantage to be easily generalisable for different failure modes and offshore structures.

About Dr. Nava

Vincenzo Nava received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Civil Engineering from the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria (Italy). In 2009 he obtained a PhD in Maritime Engineering at the same university in collaboration with Rice University (Houston, USA). He also worked on a research project with BP America (Houston, USA) and as a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria (Italy) and at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2013 he joined Tecnalia, first as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow and then as a Senior Researcher, and since 2017 he has been working as a researcher in the field of offshore renewable energies at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics - BCAM and Tecnalia.

Since 2017 he has been teaching in the Erasmus Mundus Master in Renewable Energies in the Marine Environment (REM). He is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the Joint Research Laboratory on Renewable Marine Energies (JRL-ORE) of Tecnalia, the UPV/EHU and BCAM.

During the last few years, he has participated in several R&D projects at European, national and local level, all of them in the field of marine renewable energies, with a special focus on the optimisation of marine energy device parks.