Mr Tom Tosdevin
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Mr Tom Tosdevin

COAST Researcher

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering)

Biography

Biography

Researcher supporting Marine-i and the work of the COAST research group through physical and numerical modelling of floating offshore renewable energy devices. Particularly interested in extreme response modelling and reliability.

Qualifications

MSc Marine renewable energy (2018), University of Plymouth

BSc Astrophysics (2014), Queen Mary University of London

Teaching

Teaching

Teaching interests

PGCE and QTS - 3 years teaching secondary school Maths and Physics (2014 - 2017)

Research

Research

Research interests

Probabilistic design in offshore renewable energy.

Numerical and physical modelling of offshore renewable energy devices.

Research groups

Publications

Publications

Key publications

Journals

Giassi, M., Thomas, S., Tosdevin, T., Engström, J., Hann, M., Isberg, J. and Göteman, M., 2020. Capturing the experimental behaviour of a point-absorber WEC by simplified numerical models. Journal of Fluids and Structures, 99, p.103143.

Conference Papers

Tosdevin, T., Giassi, M., Thomas, S., Engstrom, J., Hann, M., Isberg, J., Goteman, M., Ransley, E., Musliedlak, P., Simmonds, D. and Greaves, D., 2020. On the calibration of a WEC-Sim model for heaving point absorbers.

Giassi, M., Thomas, S., Shahroozi, Z., Engström, J., Isberg, J., Tosdevin, T., Hann, M. and Göteman, M., 2019, September. Preliminary results from a scaled test of arrays of point-absorbers with 6 DOF. In Proceedings of the 13th European Wave and Tidal Conference (EWTEC)(Naples).






Tosdevin T, Giassi M, Thomas S, Engstrom J, Hann M, Isberg J, Goteman M, Ransley E, Musliedlak P & Simmonds D 'On the calibration of a WEC-Sim model for heaving point absorbers' European wave and tidal energy conference (EWTEC) Open access