Profiles
Dr Danny Coles
Research Fellow - INTERREG V A France (Channel) TIGER Project
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Danny is a Research Fellow in the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering). He works on the INTERREG Tidal Stream Industry Energiser (TIGER) project. His research investigates cost of tidal energy reduction using array optimisation. Danny is a member of the British Standards Institution and contributes to the development of technical standards in marine energy through the International Electrotechnical Commission for resource assessment and tidal turbine performance.
Prior to Plymouth, Danny completed an MEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Manchester (2011), and a PhD in hydrodynamic modelling at the University of Southampton (2016), where is now a visiting researcher. Danny was a Research Associate at Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering (2016), where his research focused on the optimisation of tidal stream turbine arrays, with applications in the Alderney Race. Danny also has industry experience in the fields of tidal and wind energy working as the Resource Analyst at SIMEC Atlantis Energy (2017-2019) and as Business Information and Data Analyst at Ventient Energy (2019-2020).
Qualifications
PhD: 'Energy extraction by large tidal stream turbine arrays at sites around the Channel Islands', University of Southampton, 2013 - 2017
MEng (Hons): Mechanical Engineering, University of Manchester, 2007 - 2011
Roles on external bodies
British Standards Institute (BSI) Committee Member, contributing to International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) TS 62600-200 (Electricity producing tidal energy converters - Power performance assessment) and IEC TS 62600-201 (Tidal energy resource assessment and characterization)
Visiting researcher, Energy and Climate Change Division, Sustainable Energy Research Group, School of Engineering, University of Southampton
STEM Ambassador
Teaching interests
Invited lecturer, Master in Renewable Energy in the Marine Environment Scholarship Programme, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao
Mackie L, Coles D, Piggott M, Angeloudis A, (2020), 'The potential for tidal range energy systems to provide continuous power: a UK case study', Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8(10): 780
Coles, D.S, Blunden, L.S, Bahaj, A.S., (2020), ‘The energy yield potential of a large tidal stream turbine array in the Alderney Race’, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 378: 20190502
Goss, Z, Coles, D.S, Piggott, M, (2020), ‘Identifying economically viable tidal sites within the Alderney Race through optimisation of LCoE’, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 378: 20190500
Thiebot, J, Coles, D.S, Bennis, A-C, Guillou, N, Neill, S.P, Guillou, S, Piggott, M, (2020), ‘Numerical modelling of hydrodynamics and tidal energy extraction in the Alderney Race: a review’, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 378: 20190498
Mejia-Olivares, C.J, Haigh, I.D, Wells, N.C, Coles, D.S, Lewis, M.J, Neill, S.P, (2018), Tidal-stream energy resource characterization for the Gulf of California, México, Energy, 156: 481-491
Coles, D.S, Blunden, L.S, Bahaj, A.S., (2017), ‘Assessment of the energy extraction potential at tidal sites around the Channel Islands’, Energy, 124:171-186
Coles, D.S, Blunden, L.S, Bahaj, A.S., (2016), ‘Experimental validation for the distributed drag method used for simulating flow through large marine current turbine arrays, International Journal of Marine Energy,16:298–316
Cheung, H.K.W, Coles, D.S, Levermore, G.J., (2015), ‘Urban heat island analysis of Greater Manchester, UK using sky view factor analysis’, Building Services Engineering Research and Technology Journal, 37:5-17
Coles, D.S, Walsh, T, (2019), ‘Mechanisms for reducing the cost of tidal stream energy’, Proceedings of the 13th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC), Naples, Italy
Coles, D.S, Greenwood, C, Vogler, A, Walsh, T, Taaffe, D, (2018), ‘Assessment of the turbulent flow upstream of the MeyGen Phase 1A tidal stream turbines’, Proceedings of the 4th Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (AWTEC), Taipei, Taiwan
Coles, D.S, Walsh, T, Taaffe, D, (2018), ‘Tidal turbine array design and energy yield assessment for Naru Strait, Japan’, Proceedings of the 4th Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (AWTEC), Taipei, Taiwan
Coles, D.S, Kramer S.C, Piggott M.D, Avdis A, Angeloudis A., (2017), ‘Optimisation of tidal stream turbine arrays within Alderney Race’, Proceedings of the 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC), Cork, Ireland
Coles, D.S, Blunden, L.S, Bahaj, A.S., (2017), ‘Turbulent flow within large multi-row tidal turbine simulators’, Proceedings of the 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC), Cork, Ireland
Angeloudis A., Piggott M.D, Kramer S.C, , Avdis A, Coles, D.S, Christou M., (2017), ‘Comparison of 0-D, 1-D and 2-D model capabilities for tidal range energy resource assessments’, Proceedings of the 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC), Cork, Ireland
Coles, D.S, Blunden, L.S, Bahaj, A.S., (2016), ‘Validity of the distributed drag method for simulating large marine current turbine arrays’, Proceedings of the 3 rd Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (AWTEC), Singapore
Coles, D.S, Blunden, L.S, Bahaj, A.S., (2015), ‘Energy extraction potential from the Alderney Race’, Proceedings of the 11th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC), pp. 08D4-1-9, Nantes, France
Coles, D.S, Blunden, L.S, Bahaj, A.S. (2014), ‘Experimental testing for spatially averaged numerical modelling of large marine current energy converter arrays’, Grand Renewable Energy Conference Proceedings, 2nd Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (AWTEC), pp. O-Oc-4-2 1-4, Tokyo, Japan
Coles, D.S, Blunden, L.S, Bahaj, A.S., (2013), ‘Resource assessment of Large Marine Current Turbine Arrays’, Oceans 2013 Conference Proceedings, pp. 1-9, San Diego, USA